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Cabell, James Branch. [Gallantry.] $2. Harper.
7–32561.
“An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.” There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.
“His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr. Andrew Lang.”
| + | Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 120w. |
“We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example, ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
| + | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 450w. |
“A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman. Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
6–33635.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 118. My. ’07. S. |
“Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter, mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 110w. |
“I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.
| + − | Educ. R. 34: 103. Je. ’07. 870w. |
“This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”
| + | Ind. 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 300w. |
“Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual ‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.
| + | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 507. Jl. ’07. 1720w. |
“The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a chief merit of the book.”
| + | Nation. 85: 186. Ag. 29, ’07. 160w. |
“This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.
| + + | School. R. 15: 231. Mr. ’07. 1080w. |
Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George. Women’s work and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–11022.
“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)
“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before themselves have been successfully accomplished.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. |
“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P. Breckinridge.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w. |
“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of book they were setting themselves to produce.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w. |
“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.” Edith Abbott.
| + + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w. | |
| Nation. 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w. |
“The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive and instructive material.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 450. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w. |
“The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 175. Mr. ’07. 530w. | |
| Spec. 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 100w. |
* Caffin, Charles Henry. Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.
7–36959.
A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters working in this country and traces the various influences that have played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper, and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 359. D. ’07. 600w. |
“He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of valuable information.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 90w. |
* Cain, Georges. [Nooks and corners of old Paris]; tr. by Frederick Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37532.
Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left bank of the Seine, and The right bank of the river, M. Cain has set forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an excellent gift-book.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 600w. |
“There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the germs of the great city of to-day.”
| + | Dial. 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 320w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 350w. |
* Caird, Edward. Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.
“Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life; three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and ‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’ and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.
“With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 609. N. 16. 1520w. |
“These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on the problems of human destiny.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 2260w. |
“Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This volume should find place in all college libraries.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 170w. |
Caird, Mrs. Mona. [Romantic cities of Provence]: il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
6–45159.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 1290w. |
“The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off. There is not one dull page in the book.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 240w. |
“She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating places.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 432. D. 29, ’06. 740w. |
“It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely studied.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 240w. |
“She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so picturesquely.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 220w. |
Cairns, D. S. Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.
7–15937.
Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power to moralize the selfishness of the individual by transforming private interest into the ideal of a common good.” (Outlook.)
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Cairns’s warning is needed; but his book is by no means free from an a-priori-coloring.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 706. O. ’07. 540w. |
“These essays exhibit a thoroly modern spirit and both logical and literary ability of a high order.”
| + | Ind. 63: 456. Ag. 22, ’07. 400w. |
“As a piece of Christian apologetic, the effort of Mr. Cairns is on a higher plane than that of much recent work.”
| + | Nation. 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 720w. |
“Rarely, if ever, has the subject of the book been better treated.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w. |
Caldecott, W. Shaw. Solomon’s temple: its history and its structure. *$2.50. Union press.
A fresh treatment, the outgrowth of diligent research, which makes the Biblical narrative its own interpreter, and which dwells at length upon the architectural details of the Hebrew temple.
“Although we cannot accept all Mr. Caldecott’s conclusions we welcome his volume as a solid and thoughtful contribution to the subject; he has boldly departed from the hard, beaten track and struck out an original line, and his reward will doubtless be an increased interest in the investigation of the problem he has so vigorously attacked.”
| + + − | Acad. 73: 796. Ag. 17, ’07. 850w. |
“Though sometimes vivid and even dramatic, it is written in a confused and repetitive style, and occasionally we find contradictions ... and some uncertainty in treating of contemporary Egyptian history.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 460w. |
“On his proper subject, the construction of the temple and the adjoining palaces, our author has much that is interesting to tell us.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 250w. |
Calhoun, Mary E. Dorothy’s rabbit stories. †$1. Crowell.
7–24584.
A group of children’s stories which a little southern girl tells to her kitten Kim. “Neighbor rabbit” figures as a thoroly enjoyable hero, and seems to bear kinship to Uncle Remus’s “br’er rabbit.”
“For the child of this decade who has not read ‘Uncle Remus,’ ‘Dorothy’s rabbit stories’ will prove fascinating.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 766. D. ’07. 60w. |
Calkins, Franklin Wells. Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50. Revell.
7–16943.
“With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians. Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠ |
“He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 160w. |
“The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that adds to its charm.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w. |
Calkins, Mary Whiton. Persistent problems of philosophy: an introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–11605.
“The professor of philosophy in Wellesley college has made a most useful résumé and exposition of the tendencies and doctrines of modern philosophy since Descartes. The bibliographies are especially good. Readers who desire to become familiar with the presentation of the movement called Pragmatism will find here succinct definitions and helpful references to recent literature on the subject.” (Educ. R.) “It differs from most introductions of the kind in that it is historical, and from most histories of philosophy in that it is critical.” (Nation.)
| Educ. R. 33: 534. My. ’07. 80w. |
“The historical and critical portions of the volume are written with a facile pen. Few recent treatises on philosophy have combined so constant reference to the sources with so readable an expository style. The writer exhibits, moreover, a comprehensive acquaintance with the history of modern thinking, at the same time that she exercises independent historical judgment.” A. C. Armstrong.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 440. Ag. 1, ’07. 1540w. |
“Professor Calkins not only criticises, but constructs, and sets forth her own doctrine with such ability that she should have a distinguished place among contemporary Hegelians.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 910w. |
“Insight, poise, and a fine blending of clarity with brevity make this an eminently serviceable book for [serious students]. Such a work, in addition to her well-wrought ‘Introduction to psychology,’ gives Professor Calkins a distinction among American women as meritorious as it is unique.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 420w. |
Call, Annie Payson. Everyday living. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–37967.
That the knowledge of God’s law of liberty is power to the person who will gain it, nay, use it, is the theme running thru Mrs. Call’s dozen and more essays. There is the note of impersonal freedom which everybody can catch if he but work. She sets forth working principles, approved by experiment, which clear away the mists of material existence.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07. S. |
“The statements are so bare as to read like platitudes in many instances, and the manner is unnecessarily didactic.”
| − + | Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 50w. | |
| Putnam’s. 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 200w. |
Call, Annie Payson. Heart of good health. **30c. Crowell.
7–21545.
A monologue urging the training for the human body that corresponds to the progress of the soul in its regeneration. The little volume belongs to the “What is worth while series.”
Calthrop, Dion Clayton. Dance of love. †$1.50. Holt.
7–31413.
A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin, the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.
“Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form with considerable dramatic effect.”
| + − | Acad. 73: sup. 114. N. 9, ’07. 900w. |
“Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 950w. |
“This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w. |
Calthrop, Dion Clayton. [English costume]; painted and described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.
6–32380.
A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.” (Acad.)
“We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us, are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others provokingly trivial.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
“He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old manuscripts and missals.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 370w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task, particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other authorities.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 340w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction. He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 620w. |
“Unfortunately, however, it is impossible entirely to endorse this very high estimate of a book which, though brightly and humorously written, does not contain much that is new.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 29: 364. O. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The full-page illustrations in colour are by no means satisfactory, the artist’s sartorial lore being far superior to his technical skill and knowledge of the anatomy of the human form. The best drawings in the book are the small reproductions after the Dightons.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| + − | Liv. Age. 252: 571. Mr. 2, ’07. 660w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“If he had gone a little further and a little deeper, if he had kept clear of a certain annoying jauntiness of style, his book, valuable already, might have been of still greater worth.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 18. Ja. 18. ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“As a book of reference it loses half its value from the absence of an index; as a serious history of clothes it suffers from the author’s attempt to be sprightly; as a book of entertainment, it is too learned. Taken as a whole, as a work at once moderately entertaining to read and moderately useful for study, it may serve a purpose.”
| + − | Nation. 84. 454. My. 16, ’07. 400w. |
“This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of delight to the casual reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w. |
“His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way. If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 335. S. 15, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) | |
| Sat. R. 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 3.) | ||
| + + | Spec. 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 3.) |
* Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-. Petrarch: his life, work and times. (Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.
A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald and prophet of the renaissance.
“The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters, to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for, these slight blemishes may be removed.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 573. N. 9. 1740w. |
“An interesting sketch.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.
The history which forms the background of this volume covers the Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors. “The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int. Studio.)
“Mr. Calvert has a profound knowledge of the Alhambra as it is now and as it was at every stage of its chequered life-story, and he has the gift of imparting that knowledge in an impressive and satisfying manner.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 310w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Calvert, Albert Frederick. [Escorial]: a historical and descriptive account of the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
In picture and text this proves the first exhaustive English treatment of the Escorial—the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum in one.
“The views of the garden of the Casita de Abajo and of the interior of the Escorial itself are satisfactory and characteristic; the photographs of pictures and tapestries are much less effective; while the reproductions of Alfonso’s ‘Cantigas de Sancta Maria’ and other literary rarities are on so reduced a scale as to be virtually useless. Mr. Calvert’s text is compiled from Rotondo’s work, but he has introduced a considerable number of errors which imply, we fear, insufficient knowledge of Spanish history and literature.”
| − − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 260w. |
“The text ... is the merest hack work ... though readable enough. One may gather from the whole some notion at least of what the Escorial is like and what it signifies in history.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 480. Ag. 3, ’07. 390w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 80w. | ||
| + | Spec. 98: 1008. Je. 29, ’07. 150w. |
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Seville: an historical and descriptive account of The pearl of Andalusia. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
One of Mr. Calvert’s series on Spain. Seville, “great because of her past, and actual because of her vivid present,” (Outlook) is treated historically with emphasis placed upon the preservation by the Christians of the memorials of Moslem occupation. There is an account of the artists of Seville, including, prominently, Murillo. The illustrations include a view of the city from various points of view, its buildings, and fully sixty reproductions of famous works of art.
| + | Nation. 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 80w. |
“This book should appeal alike to the tourist, artist, archaeologist, and historical student.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 270w. |
“This is a volume of the ‘Spanish series,’ and, as might be expected, not surpassed—perhaps, one might say equalled—in interest by any other.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w. |
Calvert, Albert F., and Hartley, Catherine G. Prado: a guide and handbook to the Royal picture gallery at Madrid. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
One of the first volumes in a series dealing with Spain in its various aspects, its history its cities and monuments. This one is devoted to Madrid’s famous “congress of masterpieces”—the Prado. “The text does no more than tell in a general way something about the painters represented, name the more famous masterpieces, indicate the division into schools, and show how these schools, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, are represented.” (N. Y. Times.) There are two hundred and twenty-one illustrations.
“Equally pleasing as the style is the general construction of the book. I must break a lance, several lances, with authors and producers with regard to the excellence of the illustrations in this particular issue.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 622. Je. 29, ’07. 2240w. |
“It contains much sound and sympathetic criticism of the principal pictures in the gallery of the Prado, set forth in a pleasant, sober style.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 590w. |
“The chief value of this volume lies in the pictures.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 320w. |
Calvert, Thomas Henry. Regulation of commerce under the federal constitution. (Studies in constitutional law, v. 3.) $3. Thompson.
7–12250.
This book is based mainly upon an examination of decisions of the Supreme court of the United States, arranged in such order that together they make a critical commentary upon a constitutional power.
“The arrangement is logical, the cases well chosen, and the significant points in decisions clearly formulated. The book lacks attractiveness for the general reader in the fact that it contains little else than cases—almost no comment, explanation, or summary. Neither does it possess sufficient originality to enable it to usurp the places occupied by its predecessors.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 43. Je. 11, ’07. 290w. |
“The law student, the practicing lawyer, the legislator, the man of affairs, will all find here an orderly presentation of the subject, with ample references to original decisions.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 267. Ap. 27, ’07. 960w. |
“A work of this character should be a digest having the merits which go to make an index valuable. It should be complete, brief, logically arranged and clearly stated. These merits the author cannot claim.” E. Parmalee Prentice.
| − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 336. Je. ’07. 510w. |
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
2–26356.
v. 10. The restoration.
This volume deals with the principles and problems that occupied statesmen during “the period of reaction and ebullition which followed the close of the Napoleonic wars.” (Outlook)
“Many of these essays are excellent and some of them deal with the subject indicated by the title: others are not up to the standard, and some have no apparent connection with the theme.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 654. D. 29, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“The chief section of the book is constituted by Professor Ward’s able treatment of the war as a whole, in its narrower sense; thorough as is the writer’s grasp of the field, he has little gift of narration, leaves no vivid impressions of either men or events, and casts no new light on problems.” Victor Coffin.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 627. Ap. ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“On the whole we may conclude that the volume is, in some respects, a distinct contribution to the literature of the subject in English, and in spite of the defects natural to such a work, is likely to prove very useful for many purposes.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 143. O. ’07. 1440w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“There is altogether too little of the economic and social side of history in this work.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 653. My. ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“This volume has not always triumphed over the tendency to make a history of these periods of recovery a résumé of names and dates.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 173. Ag. 17. 1880w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“It cannot but be acknowledged that no single author in this volume has succeeded in conveying ideas as Lord Acton, himself has conveyed them in his lectures.” E. D. Adams.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 223. Ap. 1, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“If there appears less unity in this volume, because there is no great central figure or theme, it nevertheless possesses sound utility.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 288. N. 1, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“This is incontestably one of the most important, best-written, and most homogeneous of the volumes of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ that have appeared so far.” W. E. Rhodes.
| + + + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 807. O. ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“A notable feature of the volume—it will remain an exceptional feature of this particular volume, the editors inform us—are its bibliographies, especially that of the extant original manuscripts and contemporary narrative and controversial literature of the Thirty years’ war, based on the collections in Lord Acton’s library, without which, indeed, it could not have been compiled.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“Every library should have it, and the busy scholar who wants facts, not eloquent fiction, will secure it for reference, but no one will read it over his evening pipe. In this regard it cannot be esteemed an equal to the French cooperative work, the ‘Histoire generale,’ which is always lucid and sometimes interesting.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“The chapters are often of great merit, and there are fewer dull parts, omissions, repetitions, and inconsistencies than in some of the previous volumes.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 6: 226. Jl. 19, ’07. 2610w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“Everywhere one finds care, accuracy and a businesslike spirit, which presents the facts in a clear and coherent way.”
| + + + | Nation. 85: 166. Ag. 22, ’07. 2590w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| + + | Nation. 85: 327. O. 10, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“Altogether, it will be seen that I regard the plan of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ as unsatisfactory. It is a compromise between the needs of the general reader and the special student.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“If the present volume happens to be more than usually dull, it is because it deals with a period of the world’s history in which the world was for the most part marking time and preparing the way for startling developments.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 10.) | |
| Outlook. 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 4.) | ||
| + + | Outlook. 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 10.) |
“The development during the first half of the period has been conscientiously if not entertainingly, described in the ponderous volume.” G. Louis Beer.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 743. S. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 10.) | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 10.) | ||
| Sat. R. 103: 49. Ja. 12, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 4.) | ||
| + + | Spec. 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 10.) |
Cambridge natural history, v. 1. *$4.25. Macmillan.
Ten large volumes will be included in this work which will cover the natural history of the animal kingdom.
v. 1. “The present volume includes four of the lowest groups. The protozoa are treated by Prof. M. M. Hartog of Queen’s college, Cork.... The sponges are described by Miss Igerna Sollars, lecturer at Newnham college.... The extensive and important group of jelly-fishes, sea-anemones, and hydroids is dealt with by Prof. S. J. Hickson of the Victoria university of Manchester.... The last group, including star-fishes, sea-urchins, and their allies, is described by Prof. E. W. McBride of McGill university, Montreal.”—Nation.
“As a guide to the scientific study of those animals with which it deals, the whole book can be safely recommended.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“In attempting to bring together within short compass many scattered facts the authors of this and of some of the other volumes have failed both in giving a readable account of the subjects and in distinguishing between what is important and what is trivial.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 540w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Taken in conjunction with the earlier published volumes, the work seems to fulfil the purpose of providing an intelligible and adequate survey of the entire animal kingdom without giving undue prominence to particular groups.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 31. N. 8, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The zealous student of animal morphology, or the professional zoologist anxious to bring his knowledge up to date, will find here a compendium upon which he can rely.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: sup. 3. My. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The different divisions are unevenly balanced as to both matter and substance, and in two of the divisions at least, the impression is gained that the author had mainly a book knowledge of the group he was monographing.” G. N. C.
| + − | Science, n. s. 26: 44. Jl. 12, ’07. 620w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The work in all cases is extremely well done.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Campbell, Harry Huse. Manufacture and properties of iron and steel. 4th ed. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–13501.
A thoroly revised edition brought down to date by the inclusion of valuable new matter. It is of importance to engineers and students of metallurgy, and also to “those interested in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”
Review by Henry H. Norris.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 500w. |
“The treatment throughout is that of a thorough master of metallurgical science, embodying not only sound theoretical exposition, but including as well specific citations of the best modern practice. The work ... will be found of exceeding value, not only to engineers and students of metallurgy, but to those interested in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”
| + | Technical Literature. 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 550w. |
Campbell, Reginald John. [New theology.] **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–11604.
A restatement of the essential truth of the Christian religion in terms of the modern mind. The author gives an outline of his own personal views, and some of the chapter headings are as follows: God and the universe, Man in relation to God, The nature of evil, Jesus the divine man, The eternal Christ, The incarnation of the Son of God, The atonement, The authority of Scripture, and The church and the kingdom of God.
“Mr. Campbell displays a vigorous hostility to traditional theological opinions which will hardly serve to help matters. In many instances, he cannot escape the charge of having caricatured those doctrines in order to cast odium upon them.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 705, O. ’07. 490w. |
“The weak side of Mr. Campbell’s thinking is his imperfect grasp of finite personality. He is apt to lose his way in reveries of the infinite. Mr. Campbell will probably come to see that his new theology is only a halfway house which cannot be his permanent home.” David Balsillie.
| + − | Fortnightly R. 88: 48. Jl. ’07. 7900w. |
“One cannot but honour Mr. Campbell for the courage and candour with which he has addressed himself to what he believes to be one of the crying needs of the church of to-day. Still I cannot but think that the root of the evil, which he, as prophet and preacher combats, lies deeper than he realises.” G. Tyrrell.
| + | Hibbert J. 5: 917. Jl. ’07. 2270w. | |
| Ind. 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 550w. |
“He is an earnest preacher, but possesses a heterogeneous mind and is a bit daft on the doctrine of immanence and on ‘psychic investigations.’”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 70w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 300w. |
“His volume is interesting, it is intellectually suggestive, but it is not self-evidently consistent. In short, it confirms the judgment which we have heretofore expressed, that he is a preacher, not a theologian.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 460w. |
“A work of unusual clearness.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w. |
“A really beautiful and fervently Christian book.”
| + | Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w. |
Campbell, Reginald John. New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33946.
A group of sermons preached from the City Temple pulpit, London, which teach that cooperation must replace competition, brotherhood must replace individualism; that the kingdom of love must be realized on earth.
Campbell, W. Wilfred. Canada; described by Wilfred Campbell; painted by T. Mower Martin. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–130.
Here are reproduced in picture and text wonders of Canadian scenery “from Cape Breton to Vancouver island. The same brush has caught the peculiar charm of the old Acadian country around the Basin of Minas, with its quaint suggestions of a transplanted Holland: the rugged beauty of the Gut of Canso; the ancient capital on the St. Lawrence, with its crowding memories of other days and other ways; the wild scenery of the Muskoka lakes; the rich coloring of the autumn prairies; the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies, and the almost tropical luxuriance of British Columbian valleys.” (Nation.)
“Mr. Campbell lacks the faculty of condensation, and the subjects have proved too large for him: while Mr. Mower Martin’s part of the book is almost always happy and suggestive. He indeed, reveals throughout an amazing lack of perception or discrimination.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 554. Je. 8, ’07. 640w. |
“The pictures both in the coloured plates and in letterpress, are to be commended to those who want a Canadian view of Canada. The doctrines of the author upon the future of Canada are a little difficult to understand.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 570w. |
“The value of this book to the ordinary reader is that it brings together various kinds of information which without it would have to be gathered from many sources. Mr. Campbell’s original work is mostly in the descriptions, many of which are very good.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 43: 118. S. 1, ’07. 670w. |
“He has much to say, but somehow has not succeeded in saying it effectively. The watercolour drawings of Mr. Martin show in a noticeable degree the defects of his literary collaborator.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 32: 335. O. ’07. 280w. |
“In selecting Dr. Wilfred Campbell, the well-known Canadian poet, to write the descriptive matter for this book, the publishers made on the whole a commendable choice.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, 510w. |
“The ‘description’ let it be said at once, is rather dull reading, in a style which suggests not so much the guide book as the promoter’s prospectus, with a dash of that sort of sentiment which is the stock in trade of the patriotic campaign orator. These pictures are, on the whole, rather good than bad though, like most pictures of the sort, they make the colors too bright.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w. |
“Author and painter have combined happily and successfully in presenting Canadian life and scenery agreeably and with abundant and dependable information.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w. |
“On the whole his commentary makes pleasant if not often impressive reading.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 150w. |
“In Mr. Martin Canada has an artist who is well fitted to do her justice. He has the true sense for both colour and space, and while he is not afraid of rich and startling contrasts, he always contrives to give his pictures something of the clearness and delicacy of the Canadian atmosphere.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 197. Ag. 10, ’07. 690w. |
Campbell, Wilfred J. Ian of the Orcades. †$1.50. Revell.
A tale of the North Sea coast of Scotland in the days of King Robert Third. “It is full of dark deeds and violence, and the lusts of the flesh, and we suppose that the author desires to put the picture forward as a genuine study of the past.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Campbell’s effort cannot compare with the best of the sort. It is more conventional, more titanic, and somewhat sentimental.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w. |
“The book is to be valued, not merely as a thrilling tale of bygone times, but as a curious work of art by which an author has produced the impression of a chant with words that are common and are musical simply by imparting into them the meaning of old fancies.”
| + | Ind. 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 170w. |
“It is a good story, full of adventures and excitements, although somewhat wordy in the telling.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 517. Ag. 24, ’07. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“There seems to be something like a mist over the whole story.”
| − | Spec. 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Candee, Helen Churchill. Decorative styles and periods in the home; with 177 il. **$2. Stokes.
6–43919.
Furniture makers no less than the collector and general reader will find instruction in this well-printed and fully illustrated study of furniture from antiquity thru the Renaissance to the present time.
“A readable and careful study.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 39. F. ’07. S. |
“Mrs. Candee is somewhat flamboyant and rhapsodic in her style, and her taste is more generous than chaste. Mrs. Candee does not seem to understand the importance and influence of the English eighteenth-century schools of design.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 240w. |
“In spite of such fine writing, this book is a valuable one and full of information.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 220w. |
“The text is oddly composed, with unusual turns of language, but it is intelligible, and the distinction between styles has evidently been clear to the writer. There is a little too free a treatment of the periods.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 150w. |
Canfield, Chauncey L., ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
6–43550.
Questionable as to its authenticity, this volume is a record of life in a mining-camp on one of the forks of the Yuba river from May 18, 1850, to June 17, 1852.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 731. Ap. ’07. 70w. |
“Presents certain phases of a life forever passed, simply, picturesquely, and vividly, and hence, whether diary or reminiscence, has interest and historical value.”
| + | Nation. 84: 293. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w. |
Canfield, Dorothea Frances. Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode. †$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
There is great strength in this story, and it is so planned that a beautiful self centered American girl traveling through Norway in company with a sister, an admirer and an aged aunt, is contrasted strongly with Gunhild, a Norwegian peasant. This girl, born in America, a child of the people, shows among her northern snows a depth of soul that belittles the conventional thought of the society girl; and the man stirred by something deeper and more profound than his life has yet known, turns from the girl he might have married to Gunhild and finds that she too is not for him.
“‘Gunhild’ is her first novel, and a promising one.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 260w. |
Canfield, William Walker. The spotter: a romance of the oil region. $1.50. Fenno.
7–27157.
A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators, spotters and moonshiners.
“Melodramatic fiction.”
| − | Nation. 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w. |
* Canning, Albert S. G. Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4. Jacobs.
The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II., Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.
“Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry to small beer.”
| − | Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w. |
“We have seldom occasion to examine a more unnecessary book. It contains no learning and, except in the quotations, no wit; the style is that of a schoolboy; the general intelligence is barely mediocre. The few explanatory notes are borrowed from an out-of-date commentary, and are often inaccurate.”
| − − | Nation. 85: 427. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“On points of history his adequate comments are fitly introduced. The unsatisfactoriness of the book results from faults of omissions, leaving a volume of no little usefulness on its positive side.” George S. Hellman.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 780w. |
“These essays ... are conscientious, but they are nothing more. The themes upon which Coleridge and Lamb have lavished their genius ... cry aloud for a more inspired and a more original treatment than that which Mr. Canning has given them. Nor are the passages selected for quotation always those which particularly deserve attention and comment.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 480w. |
Capek, Thomas. Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and Panslavism. priv. ptd. T. Capek, 225 E. 71st St., N. Y.
6–6749.
Including statistical information concerning the American Slovaks; something of their ambitions and efforts. “Much of the book is taken up with matters of discontent over the Magyar domination and others of peculiar concern to the home country.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“While we have no desire to question the aim and purpose of the writer, we believe that a greater service would have been performed if he had aimed to interpret to the American people more of the virtues and qualities which make the Slovak immigrant a desirable addition to our population.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 207. Ja. ’07. 460w. |
“The book is interesting as containing much information about a country and people little known, and especially as throwing light upon the complexities of that wonderful polyglot empire of Francis Joseph.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 440w. | |
| R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 50w. |
Card, Fred Wallace. Farm management. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–12691.
A thoro-going treatment of the subject from the standpoint of business methods. The discussion includes business accounts, suggestions for watching markets, time for marketing various products, and adaptation to local conditions.
“Practical, suggestive, probably the best of the ‘Farm library’ series yet published.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 118. My. ’07. S. |
“A practical book, an intensely practical book, it is, nevertheless, to a man with the farm bee buzzing in his bonnet, as fascinating as a Persian tale. The book is unique in agricultural literature.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 260w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w. |
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Angel of forgiveness. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31281.
A young girl’s story of her own life from the ago of eight to eighteen. They are full years, for in them she learns much thru sickness and suffering, she finds the mother she had always thought dead in the person of her dearest cousin and brings her back to the home she had left in her young wife-hood and to the husband who loves her. Then, when the angel of forgiveness has brought joy to her home she leaves it, a bride of eighteen, to mother the children of a husband much her senior and with him to find true happiness.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The way out of the dilemma has been happily contrived by Miss Carey, and the whole book is pleasant to read.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 672. N. 2, ’07. 140w. |
Carling, George. Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
6–34796.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The atmosphere of greed and treachery is unpleasant from first to last but for all that the account of these latter-day land-pirates is absorbing.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 280w. |
Carling, John R. By Neva’s waters; being an episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. †$1.50. Little.
7–21539.
An episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. There are love and court intrigue in plenty, which center chiefly about a young English lord whose love affair with the czarina is in the end forgiven because he did not know she was a wife, and she, owing to a strange lapse of memory, had forgotten her estate. It is a book which holds the interest until the last strand of the plot is untangled.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
Carlson, John S. Swedish grammar and reader. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
7–23330.
A practical text-book for the school-room and home, which lays no claim to a purely scientific exposition of the principles of language.
“This is a book that has been much needed, and does for the student of Swedish what Professor Julius Olson’s similar work does for the student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the ‘reader’ section of the volume are judiciously made and of much interest.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 60w. |
“A new and thoroughly practical text-book for the elementary study of Swedish.”
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 40w. |
Carpenter, Edward Childs. Code of Victor Jallot: a romance of old New Orleans. il. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–31421.
A story of the early nineteenth century whose scenes are laid in Louisiana. A French refugee, a Beau Brummel type of hero with plenty of sturdier qualities of manhood, fights for the love of “mademoiselle of the magnolias” and wins.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Carpenter, Frank G. Foods; or, How the world is fed. *60c. Am. bk.
7–20683.
The first book of a series upon the great industries of the world. It aims to provide a knowledge of the production and preparation of foods, and to show how civilization and commerce grew from man’s need of foods and the exchange of foods between the different nations of the earth.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 207. N. ’07. ✠ |
“The boy who has read it will be much better prepared for economic studies later on than the boy who has never become interested in any of these things.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 572. S. ’07. 220w. |
Carpenter, Margaret Boyd. Child in art. $2. Ginn.
A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.
“The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w. |
“Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the book.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w. |
Carpenter, Rolla Clinton. Experimental engineering and manual for testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.
6–16782.
“The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.
“Despite these rather damaging criticisms, it must be said in conclusion that the book has many features which make it a valuable addition to engineering literature. It is to be hoped that, in the next edition, the author will re-edit the book throughout, correct the errors, omit such descriptive matter and verbiage as is unnecessary, add to subjects which are incomplete, and thus produce a model, not only as regards superficial pretensions, but also as regards real worth.”
| + − | Engin. N. 56: 519. N. 15, ’06. 2930w. |
Carr, Sarah Pratt. Iron way; a tale of the builders of the West. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–12274.
“A romance of the gold-fever days in California which shifts scene to follow the course of construction of the Central Pacific railway. The traditions, heroic deeds and thrilling adventures associated with the building of this highway across the continent are recorded from the author’s memory. The book has a buoyant pioneer atmosphere.”
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
| Dial. 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 140w. |
“One feels that one is reading authentic history, but such is the art of the writer that the deftly inwoven romance—a captivating love story—remains the predominant interest. It would appear that the book is Mrs. Carr’s debut in literature, yet it is written with an ease, a freshness and a power which many a practised hand would be glad to have acquired.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 260w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 240. Ap. 13, ’07. 210w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
Carr, W. M. Open hearth steel castings. $1.50. Penton pub.
7–33981.
“This little book is a reprint of a series of articles which were published in the ‘Iron trade review’ and ‘The foundry,’ in 1905 and 1906. It comprises chapters on: Raw materials for acid and basic practice and moldings; open hearth furnace construction; fuels and accessories; manipulation of acid and of basic heats; chemical and physical tests; relation between chemical composition and physical properties; blowholes and checks in steel castings; heat treatment and annealing; repairing with thermit, and cost of equipment.”—Engin. N.
“Each subject is treated briefly and the information given is well-chosen, useful and accurate, reflecting the author’s own experience in practice, and utilizing advantageously the small amount of printed space occupied. It is written in a clear manner and the greater part of it will be comprehensible even to men who have no technical education.” Bradley Stoughton.
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 350w. |
Carrington, Hereward. Physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent and genuine. **$2. Turner, H. B.
7–17909.
A brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The book is mainly devoted to exposing the frauds of professional mediums.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 130w. |
“This book is interesting, it is amusing, it is even, in its revelation of the frauds practised by nearly every professional medium, revolting. The paramount impression this writer conveys is that of being a fair and openminded gentleman of excellent balance and keen intelligence.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 550w. |
“It is, indeed, a storehouse of raw material from which one may learn to generalize safely about the psychology of deception.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w. |
Carroll, Benajah Harvey. Political history of Europe from 1815 to 1848, based on continental authorities. $2. Baylor univ. press, Waco, Texas.
6–13425.
A volume which “is intended to give American students, an accurate if somewhat succinct account of the course of Post-Napoleonic European political history,” and “does not pretend to be more than a compilation from the best and most accessible and usually untranslated continental authorities.”
“The author was apparently in too great haste to attend much to the medium of his thoughts. Present and past tenses and conditions are mixed up indiscriminately, and extraordinary language is indulged in. Most of it is fairly good, and the characterizations of public men are at times excellent. But the arrangement is poor and detail is usually put in where uncalled for; the disjointed sections give little impression of continuity and do not make clear the general development; nothing stands out in bold relief.” Victor Coffin.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 11: 947. Jl ’06. 530w. |
“The work may have its place as a survey of the history of the period for an elementary class, but should not have been introduced to the general public in its present form.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 464. N. ’06. 170w. |
“It does not pretend to be based on sources, and apparently the only authority mentioned is Lord’s ‘Beacon lights of history.’ The book, however, displays considerable historical reading, and contains a few useful suggestions and apt quotations. In some respects it is a literary curiosity; it is written in an English more vigorous than elegant, and was evidently prepared in great haste.... All things considered, the book seems to have no justification for its existence.”
| − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 191. Mr. ’07. 170w. |
Carson, William Henry. Evelyn Van Courtland. $1.50. Fenno.
7–29570.
Jealousy incites Howard Van Courtland to murder his business partner. Malcolm, a young clerk in their employ, is accused and the story is mainly concerned with the trial in which Van Courtland’s daughter, learning of her father’s guilt, is bent upon clearing Malcolm. She draws information from the prosecuting attorney and passes it on to the defendant’s counsel, all of which finally proves of no avail until in a dramatic court-room scene the father confesses his guilt and dies suddenly. In the end misunderstandings are adjusted and love wins a hard fought battle.
“Here is another novel hinging on the unwritten law. It is not as unsavory as some of its kind, and, as its lack of distinction precludes the probability of a wide circulation, it is not likely to do any harm.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w. |
Cartrie, Count de. See La Villeniere, T.-A. T. de la C.
Carus, Paul. Our children; hints from practical experience for parents and teachers. *$1. Open ct.
7–2052.
Written by “one of the most distinguished exponents of the new philosophical conception known as monism.” It supplements Froebelism with the results of recent scientific investigation and advanced psychological methods. “In the chapter which treats upon the subject of punishment, we get the key-note to the author’s ethical principles. Like Tolstoy, and like a greater Teacher, he advocates non-resistance of evil with evil. Retaliation is condemned, a lie must be overcome by truth, wrong by right and violence by patience.... Punishment, Dr. Carus declares, ought to be the ‘consequence of a wrong act which is brought home to the knowledge and sentiments of the child.’”—Lit. D.
“Like Huxley he knows the secret of clothing abstruse subjects in an attractive garb and his works have a popular appeal. It will prove of especial interest and value to those engaged in kindergarten work.”
| + + | Lit. D. 24: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 300w. |
“Written in thought-provoking style. The book contains many hints from practical experience.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 40w. |
Carver, Thomas Nixon, comp. Sociology and social progress. *$2.75. Ginn.
6–5680.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
| + | Charities. 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w. |
“A timely and valuable book. The selections from large works, which is no easy task, are judiciously made. He has supplied an introduction to it of his own, in which he sets forth as clearly as has ever been done the true scope and method of sociology. His treatment is thoroughly sane.” Lester F. Ward.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 25: 27. Ja. 4, ’07. 1110w. |
Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Works of James McNeill Whistler; a study. **$4. Moffat.
7–3697.
Not so much a work of ultimate authority and exhaustive knowledge, as an intelligent and reasoned view of Whistler’s work for the benefit of the reader of somewhat limited opportunities.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07. | ||
| Current Literature. 42: 289. Mr. ’07. 810w. |
“As a piece of critical writing, it is eminently sound and true to right principles. The aptness of Miss Cary’s phraseology is deserving of more than casual comment. Exception must, however, be taken to one expression.” Frederick W. Gookin.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 218. Ap. 1, ’07. 1540w. |
“A book which comprehensively covers the field of Whistler’s accomplishments and embodies a perspicuous account of his methods.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 1404. D. 22, ’06. 130w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. |
“In a word, it is a survey of Whistler’s artistic accomplishments, presented in an elaborate, beautiful, pictorial setting by an author whose experience has given her rare insight into the mysteries and functions of artistic expression.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 15, ’06. 190w. |
“Miss Cary’s book is admirably adjusted in its aim. It seems ... equally admirable in its manner and the selection of its matter.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 640w. |
“She is admirable alike in the selection of material and in the non-technical treatment of his inspiration.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w. |
“It is indeed a patient, accurate literalness which chiefly distinguishes this book. We get the facts, it is true, but in the end feel somewhat deprived of that spirit which animates and transcends mere fact—a spirit which Whistler himself possesses in so abounding a degree and which he would seem to demand of others.” Christian Brinton.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 370w. |
Casson, Herbert Newton. Romance of steel: the story of a thousand millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
“Not so much a history of the steel industry itself as of the successive efforts to capitalize that industry and of the personal careers of the men whose fortunes have been made in steel-making, although they themselves were in most instances as ignorant of the industrial processes by which their wealth was gained as the average man in the street.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Casson’s story has the merit of being remarkably inclusive, on the historic and physical sides, as well as in its personal aspects.”
| + | Ind. 63: 820. O. 3, ’07. 800w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 428. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w. |
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 381. S. ’07. 140w. |
Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Edgerton. [My merry Rockhurst.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–34310.
“Some episodes in the life of Viscount Rockhurst, a friend of King Charles II. and at one time constable of his majesty’s tower of London.” These episodes, although they do not form a consecutive story, all deal with the same reckless, daring cynic, loyal friend and devoted father. They tell of his fortunes, his misfortunes, his varied adventures, his struggles with the world and with himself, and all have as a background the strangely romantic court at which he played such a conspicuous part.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The tales are so ingeniously and thoroughly welded together that the book as a whole forms a complete and satisfactory romance.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 130w. |
* Cathedrals of England and Wales: their history, architecture and associations. 2v. $10. Churchman co.
An opportunity is here afforded of becoming acquainted with the character, the history, the traditions and associations connected with the cathedrals of southern Britain.
“A sumptuous gift-book and the enterprise of the publishers is to be commended. They have introduced to the American public a volume which is a treasury of art, literature, and history.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“The present volumes give an entertaining and, for the general reader, an adequate account and portrayal.” Cameron Mann.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 629. O. 19, ’07. 860w. |
Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church; ed. by Chas. G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Conde B. Pallen, Thomas J. Shahan, John J. Wynne, assisted by numerous collaborators. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.
7–11606.
An encyclopedia which as it is produced by American Catholic scholars who have brought to their task the freshness of view and freedom of inspiration that stamps Catholicism in America may be said to represent the “ripest and most developed product of Catholic thought.” (Lit. D.)
v. 1. In this first volume are to be found the contributions of over 1,000 men and women of recognized scholarship, representing 27 nationalities.
“Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided; some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe our eyes when we read them.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command attention.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable contribution to science and a remarkable example of American enterprise.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Though this important work has chief value and significance for Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing prejudices.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense throughout the world.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) |
* Cattelle, Wallis Richard. The pearl: its story, its charm and its value. il. **$2. Lippincott.
7–30808.
The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great. Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions, the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty sea-gem to discriminate.”
Cautley, C. Holmes. Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.
With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the hallmark of sincerity.”
“It is something to the credit of the author that he has done what he evidently set out to do, and those who can master the dialect may like those parts of the book which fail to attract us.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 130w. |
“The author has looked with clear and kindly eyes upon life, and is concerned only to portray it as it is. The result is a novel of very real value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 500w. |
“Mr. Cautley’s novel is too long, but there is good stuff in it.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 150w. |
Cellini, Benvenuto. [Life of Benvenuto Cellini]; tr. and ed. by John Addington Symonds, with an introd. to this ed. by Royal Cortissoz. 2v. **$6. Brentano’s.
6–40203.
This edition is complete enough for the student and artistic enough in book workmanship for the collector. Besides Mr. Symonds’ introductory material, Royal Cortissoz presents a “sympathetic though critical” interpretation of the “discrepancy between Cellini’s personal forcefulness and artistic achievement.”
“It may be said at once that no more distinguished piece of book-making has come from an American press for a long while past. The typography while usually excellent, is not impeccable.”
| + + − | Dial. 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 330w. |
“A more satisfying edition of this classic autobiography does not exist in English.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w. |
“This reprint is likely to remain for years the preferable library edition of these fascinating memoirs.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 150w. |
“Altogether the edition presents this classic in a form of such good taste and solid excellence of workmanship that it will be welcomed by all lovers of literature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 160w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
Chadwick, Hector Munro. Origin of the English nation. (Cambridge archæological and ethnological ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
7–29044.
By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history, tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author “deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.” (Spec.)
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w. |
“Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place, being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w. |
“It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in textbook and handbook.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w. |
“There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w. |
“The value of the book lies in the healthy spirit of scepticism which pervades it, and which is the outgrowth of an unusually wide knowledge of Teutonic philology, literature and archaeology.”
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 550. S. ’07. 180w. |
“A very learned and careful work.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Chadwick, Rev. John White. Cap’n Chadwick, Marblehead skipper and shoemaker. *60c. Am. Unitar.
6–35723.
A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and followed a skipper’s life in summer.
“In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + − | Arena. 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
“This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w. |
Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root. Child religion in song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–26993.
Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.
Chambers, Robert William. Fighting chance. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–29527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without flaws and imperfections.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 121. F. 2, ’07. 370w. |
“Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 180w. |
“How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 38: 544. Ap. ’07. 760w. | |
| − | R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”
| + | Spec. 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 220w. |
Chambers, Robert William. [Tracer of lost persons.] †$1.50. Appleton.
6–20360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”
| + | Acad. 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 350w. |
“Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 140w. |
“The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through with great spirit.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
Chambers, Robert William. Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–17386.
“The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w. |
“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very good of their extravagant kind.”
| + | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w. |
“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or scintillate.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w. |
Chambers, Robert W. [Younger set.] †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26022.
“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier; his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the divorce problem.”—Outlook.
“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a clever writer and a close student of character.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w. |
“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w. |
“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence, such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w. |
“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New York society.”
| − | Ind. 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w. |
“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters portrayed.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w. |
“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 620w. |
“The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w. | |
| Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 670w. |
“An absorbing story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr. Chambers’s best work.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 260w. |
“It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average novel of American society.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 549. N. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Champlain, Samuel de. [Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain] (1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
6–32458.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable suggestions.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 290w. |
“A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07. |
“The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 205. Ja. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 80w. |
“The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more generally known.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 960w. |
Champney, Elizabeth W. Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.
7–431.
“From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.
“Carefully selected and delightfully told.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07. |
“Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and undramatic.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 200w. |
“She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she feels herself.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well, but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w. |
“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their very palaces.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w. |
“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs. Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has handled.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w. |
“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner most attractive to foreign readers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w. |
“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w. |
Chancellor, Edwin Beresford. History of the squares of London: topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.
A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo; Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.
“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill and industry, appears at a fitting time.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w. |
“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten history, and curious reminiscence.”
| + | Dial. 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w. |
“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400 large pages and weighs 3 lb.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often valuable historical information.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w. |
“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has piled together about all the principal squares in London.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w. |
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the important literary forms in English by a division according to types rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama, opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.
“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + + | Dial. 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w. |
“His work is unique in its scope.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 130w. |
“Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting account of the English literature of roguery, punctuated with pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 744. N. 23, ’07. 1400w. |
Channing, Elizabeth Parsons. Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–25238.
A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true, love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith in God.”
“Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of sharing in the world’s movements.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 350w. |
Chapin, Anna Alice. Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–43758.
“Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 39. F. ’07. |
“Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and well written.”
| + | Nation. 83: 542. D. 20, ’06. 150w. |
“This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 51. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w. |
“An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the attention of students.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 110w. |
Chapman, Frank Michler. Warblers of North America, by Frank M. Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.
7–14643.
“The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,” including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07. |
“To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of constant use.”
| + | Nation. 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 150w. |
“Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent and authoritative value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 110w. |
“Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 26: 305. S. 6, ’07. 480w. |
Chapman, J. Wilbur. S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace. **$1.25. Revell.
6–29045.
The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.
“Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 190w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 180w. |
Charles, R. H., ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23 Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.
The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.
“Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 320. Ap. ’07. 60w. |
“In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems done with tolerable finality.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 300w. |
Chart, D. A. Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns ser.) $2. Macmillan.
7–25495.
This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country, of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink sketches and give value to the work.
“It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’ book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to say, promise of better work.”
| − + | Acad. 73: 942. S. 28, ’07. 820w. |
“There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 34. Jl. 13. 1320w. |
“A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 230w. |
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–25660.
A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales” written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study of Chaucer in the original text.
“When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr. McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”
| + − | Nation. 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 100w. |
“The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ... with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them quite within the limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive, and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w. |
Cheney, John Vance, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v. *$3. Reilly & B.
6–34849; 6–35584.
Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the inaugural addresses of our presidents.
“The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 633. My. ’07. 100w. | |
| Dial. 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 682. O. 20, ’06. 1130w. |
Cheney, Warren. His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31211.
A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting. The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their own happiness is the story of the book.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
Chesson, Nora. Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H. Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.
“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.) “Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y. Times.)
“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but its learning is never an obsession.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w. |
“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy stuff passing current as historical fiction.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth century.”
| + | Spec. 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w. |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Charles Dickens.] **$1.50. Dodd.
6–34069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive, appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always entertaining.”
| + + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
“It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct, than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + − | No. Am. 183: 1047. N. 16, ’06. 1530w. |
“It has the real Dickens’ merit of leaving the reader exhilarated and on better terms with all the world.”
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 509. Ja. ’07. 620w. |
“Mr. Chesterton’s ‘Dickens’ is the best thing he has done in criticism.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 1: 634. F. ’07. 620w. |
Childe, Charles P. Control of a scourge; or, How cancer is curable. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29144.
“The purpose of the book is to teach that the dread disease of cancer is curable by operation if taken in time. According to the diagnosis of Dr. Childe, cancer is, in its earliest stages, entirely a local disease, at least in many cases the result of local irritation.”
“The most optimistic book on cancer that has perhaps ever come from a physician of experience without any ulterior motive.”
| + | Ind. 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w. |
“Mr. Childe deserves the thanks of the public for his very lucid explanation of the practical importance of the latest conclusions of surgery.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 680w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 350w. |
“Whether the subject could not have been dealt with in a quarter of the space with equally satisfactory results as regards the general public is a question, many of the details introduced being quite unnecessary for the average man or woman to know.” R. T. H.
| − + | Nature. 76: 171. Je. 20, ’07. 220w. |
“These two hundred pages are the more interesting in that they are devoid of quackery and are composed in the most simple language, for the encouragement and enlightenment of the general public.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 460w. |
“His book is clearly written and neither technical nor sensational.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w. |
“His book is extremely valuable.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 1012. Je. 29, ’07. 410w. |
Chisholm, Louey. Enchanted land. Pictures by Katharine Cameron. †$3. Putnam.
Sixteen fairy tales retold and pictured in color.
“Many of the colour pictures are insipid and leave a great deal to be desired.”
| − | Acad. 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 30w. | |
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 140w. |
“Many of the stories will not be familiar, so that the ‘retelling’ is welcome.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 70w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 20w. |
“Special praise is due Miss Katharine Cameron for the coloured illustrations which reach a high standard of excellence.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 280. Ja. ’07. 40w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w. |
“Miss Katharine Cameron delights in colour and indulges recklessly in paint, her drawing is feeble, but she occasionally gets some very pretty and Conderesque effects of colour and decoration.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w. |
“Among the books of old fairy-tales retold, we wish particularly to call attention to Miss Chisholm’s ‘Enchanted land.’”
| + | Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 70w. |
Chisholm, Louey, comp. Golden staircase: poems for children. il. **$2.50. Putnam.
An anthology of child verse whose aim is wholly educative. The best writers, English and American, who have written poems for children are included.
“Should have a word of especially appreciative praise, because it assumes on the part of the child a natural taste for that which is beautiful, and a natural love for the imaginative.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 250w. |
“Admirable anthology.”
| + | Spec. 98: 627. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w. |
Chittenden, Russell Henry. Nutrition of man: a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$3. Stokes.
7–21556.
Professional men, volunteers from the hospital corps of the United States army, recruits from the ranks of university athletic students form what has been termed “Professor Chittenden’s starvation squad.” These lectures give the result of his experiments in putting willing subjects on half rations and less.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. |
“This book is one of first-rate importance, not only to the physiologist and physician as a guide to scientific truth, but also to the individual, and even to the state.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 45. Jl. 13. 1220w. |
“It seems safe to say that this thoroughly revolutionary work will attract more general popular attention than any other scientific book has attracted in many years.” Michael Williams.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 329. My. 25, ’07. 2370w. |
“It is interesting also to the economist, because for the first time it bridges in part the gap between human energy and social wealth.”
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 568. S. ’07. 200w. |
Cholmondeley, Mary. [Prisoners.] †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34683.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Concocts a melodrama rivaling Ouida at her most inventive, but proceeds to recount it in a manner not unworthy the chronicler of ‘Cranford,’ or ‘The perpetual curate.’” Mary Moss.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 360w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 760w. |
“We can only characterize the new book as a disappointment.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 120w. |
Christ that is to be, by the author of Pro Christo et ecclesia. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30464.
“A series of successive efforts to think what the gospel of Jesus really is.” Some of the suggestive channels in which effort is directed are the following: Our need of reformation, The actions of Jesus, The doctrine of prayer, Salvation of joy, The use of sin, The use of pain, Fatalism and asceticism, The devil and his angels, The scorn of superstition; Mind and disease, Fasting and temptation, and The sword and the muck-rake.
“This book is full of interest and ideas; it is well, if not too copiously written; and with many of its main arguments we are in agreement.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 646. N. 23. 1320w. |
“What has been said affords but a very partial glimpse of a laborious and fascinating discussion of many things—prayers, the ascetic life, inspiration, demonology, war and the like. Its effect is not only to stimulate thought but to excite obedience and to spread sincerity.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1000w. |
“Fulfils in a great measure the promise of the earlier work; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that some chapters more than fulfil that promise, while in the others the shadow of modern superstition darkens the lucidity of the thought.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 500w. |
Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald H. Christie). Embroidery and tapestry weaving: a practical text-book of design and workmanship; with drawings by the author and other. il. $2. Macmillan.
7–35144.
A practical rather than historical handbook. “Of stitches alone, some forty kinds are here explained and illustrated by clearly drawn diagrams; methods of work, also amply illustrated, occupy several chapters; while others are devoted to tools, appliances, materials, garniture, etc.” (Int. Studio.)
“Practical, clearly written, and well illustrated.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 60w. |
Christie, William Wallace. Boiler-waters, scale, corrosion, foaming. *$3. Van Nostrand.
6–45054.
This work has for its object to furnish steam-users with information regarding water, its use, and troubles arising from the use of water, and remedies that may be used or applied; the gain being more efficient generation of steam. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.
“Emphasis is given to the injurious properties of hard waters, and the illustrations of corrosion, boiler scale, etc., are particularly well set forth. This is by far the most interesting and valuable portion of the book. The discussion of the chemistry of boiler-waters is elementary and superficial. The attempt to furnish simple tests for the use of engineers is far from satisfactory. Some of the best methods of analysis are not given, while other descriptions are incomplete. Furthermore, confusion is introduced by the use of many different methods of stating results. The theory of water softening is passed over in a few words, but the descriptions of water softening plants as related to steam making are clear and concise.” G. C. Whipple.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w. |
“The book is well written and printed; and the material is of great value, but it would be of greater value if the author, instead of quoting the opinions of engineers and chemists on disputed points, had made a more determined attempt to solve the difficult questions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 180w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w. |
Christmas anthology: carols and poems old and new. **50c. Crowell.
7–20856.
A holiday book which brings together carols and poems which sing of the true spirit of Christmas, of love, of charity, of peace and good will to all men.
Churchill, Winston. [Coniston.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–19776.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
| + + | Atlan. 99: 123. Ja. ’07. 440w. |
“Reading ‘Coniston’ is very like spending a week in a remote New England village, stopping one’s newspaper and keeping away from the post-office.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
| + + | No. Am. 183: 415. S. 7, ’06. 840w. |
Cipriani, Lisi de. Cry of defeat. $1.25. Badger.
6–38992.
Under the sub-divisions, The cry of defeat, Words of love and sorrow, Songs of others, A curious world, and Crumbs, appear a collection of short poems varying in subject and merit.
“The only obvious technical defects do not prevent the successful appeal to our sympathies of a sore and wounded spirit, even where the tone is not only sorrowful but exceedingly morbid.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w. |
Cipriani, Lisi. A Tuscan childhood. **$1.25. Century.
7–31991.
With the buoyancy and naïveté of childhood the fourth of seven children in an Italian patrician family sets down the incidents of work and play that fixed the bond of allegiance among them. There is race temperament in abundance, and yet it is the universal nature of childhood that makes the strongest appeal.
“All in all, a not half bad hour may be spent over the volume, which can also well be placed on the shelf for consultation during minor domestic crises.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 210w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“It is pleasant reading for an indifferent mood.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 698. N. 2, ’07. 210w. |
“Every detail in the book is so perfectly set in its place and so well told that one feels a new and pleasant sensation in its perusal.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
Cirkel, August. Looking forward. $1.25. Forward pub. co.
6–42899.
“This is a conspicuous contribution to what may be called the literature of impractical reform. Not for one but for many vital problems in the contemporary life of the United States does Mr. Cirkel proffer a solution. In turn he takes up and with remarkable ease disposes of the issues raised by the growing power of corporations, by the railway companies, by the insurance revelations, by the relations between capital and labor, by the spread of the socialistic movement, and by the necessity of securing an ‘elastic currency.’”—Outlook.
“It is quite true that there is a good deal in his pages to stimulate thought. But this is far overbalanced by the visionary character of the author’s principal proposals and by the extremism of many of his views.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 160w. |
Claassen, H. Beet-sugar manufacture; authorized tr. from the 2d German ed., by W. T. Hall, and G. W. Rolfe. *$3. Wiley.
6–38550.
“The scope and plan of the book embraces the entire process of beet-sugar manufacture from the time of the receiving of the beets to the finished product.”—Science.
“A book which ranks with the very best in the sugar literature of the day. It is a pleasure to state that [the translators’] work, too, is everything that could be desired. A few typographical errors and slips have crept in, but these will unquestionably be noted and corrected in a future edition, which, no doubt, will soon be warranted.” F. G. Wiechmann.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 25: 104. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w. |
Claremont, Leopold. Gem-cutter’s craft. *$5. Macmillan.
7–18824.
“Describes the appearance of the different varieties of gem-stones, gives an outline of the industry and craft of gem-cutting, tells how to identify the real and precious article and note the difference between it and the imitation, and provides an account of how the gems are mined and made ready for the market either in their first rough state, after having been freed from the minerals surrounding them, or when cut and shaped.” (N. Y. Times.) Fully illustrated.
“The history of the gem from its rough state to its cut and polished final appearance is given with remarkable clearness in this work by a cutter of jewels, who writes in the first place for cutters.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 360w. |
“The work before us constitutes almost a new departure in the literature of precious stones.” J. W. J.
| + − | Nature. 75: 321. Ja. 31, ’07. 1270w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 180w. |
Clark, Andrew, ed. Shirburn ballads, 1585–1616; ed. from the Ms. *$3.40. Oxford.
They are all from a manuscript in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, at Shirburn castle. “This collection helps to bridge over the gap between the earlier ballads and those of the post-Restoration period. The variety offered is considerable; there are ballads of religion and of politics, festive ballads and ballads of earthquakes and monsters.” (Dial.)
“The notes of Mr. Shirburn are so learned and interesting that we must admire them in spite of the poetry which they illustrate.” Andrew Lang.
| + | Acad. 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1140w. |
“The editor deserves much praise for the pains he has taken to make this book serviceable to the student of Elizabethan social conditions. Many pieces both grave and gay, although throwing no light on institutions or social conditions, yet have an interest to the historian as indicating the temper of the times.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 923. Jl. ’07. 300w. |
“The editor ... has done his work with great care. If we were to find fault with anything, it would be that he does not always stick to his antiquarian last.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 727. Je. 15. 370w. | |
| Dial. 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 140w. | ||
| Lond. Times. 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1590w. |
“Perhaps the greatest importance of the collection is that it bridges over the gap in ballad-literature between the early ballads as represented by Prof. F. J. Child’s monumental work and those of the post-restoration period.”
| + | Nation. 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 470w. |
Clark, Henry Martyn. Robert Clark of the Panjab. **$1.75. Revell.
“This volume commemorates the life and work of a pioneer missionary amidst a fierce and fanatical people, in northwestern India.... The courage and gentleness, the energy and patience, the self-devotion and tactfulness of the ideal missionary were all illustrated in him, and he did not lack ‘the saving grace’ of a sense of humor. The narrative is blended with sketches of the land and the people, their ways, and the lights and shadows thence resulting. Especially noticeable are the indications of an active interest of both officers and privates of the British army in Christian missions, outrunning a timid policy of the civil government.”—Outlook.
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 217. Jl. 12, ’07. 430w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 723. My. 4, ’07. 450w. | |
Clark, Henry W. Philosophy of Christian experience. *$1.25. Revell.
W 6–328.
Mr. Clark “approaches the problem of religion and the object of religious belief from the ethical standpoint. He proposes to treat religion, not as a science of God and his relation to man, but as an art, the ‘art of character-production.’ His book is itself evidence that the Christian religion is primarily a mode of life and conduct, rather than a system of science or philosophy.”—Am. J. Theol.
“Mr. Clark writes eloquently and persuasively. His argument would be stronger and more complete if he had pointed out in his chapter on ‘Christian self-culture’ how identification with Christ involves for man the realization of a definite ideal of service and self-sacrifice. But, on the whole, the book possesses rare merit, having a freshness of inspiration and a cogency of thought quite unusual among works of its class.” Henry W. Wright.
| + + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 358. Ap. ’07. 550w. |
“Not often does one find an account of Christian experience which is ethically and philosophically so sound and luminous.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 200w. |
Clark, Imogen. Santa Claus’ sweetheart. †$1.25. Dutton.
6–29778.
“Tells how a little maid hailed a passing sleigh, believing it to contain Santa Claus, heard many wonderful things from the merry-hearted Irishman who was driving it, and was left by him at a lumberman’s hut in the forest, where she found her long-lost father.”—N. Y. Times.
“A tender little tale of Christmas time, with big type for encouragement.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“Something very charming in the way of a tale has been woven.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1309. D. 22, ’06. 100w. |
“The incidents are the homely ones of every day life, but they are told with such a merry tenderness as to bring out all their humor and all their pathos, and make them glow with that spirit of the Christmas time.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 70w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w. |
Clark, Mrs. Mary Mead. Corner in India. **$1. Am. Bapt.
7–20732.
“It is a simple story of life-long devotion to the missionary cause, ending with a hopeful, if somewhat meagre, outlook.” (Nation.) Thirty-three years of residence in her corner of the world have brought Mrs. Clark “into contact with many interesting stories of the home-life of the savages in Burma, of their life at work and at play, their worship and strange legends, their relationships with neighboring villages, and, above all, their slow acceptance of the Christian faith offered to them by the zealous missionaries.” (Dial.)
“Her book is consequently of interest both to the casual reader who likes to know about strange people in remote nooks of the world, and to those readers who are vitally concerned about the spread of the Christian religion.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + | Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 200w. |
“Mrs. Clark’s account gains much by its lack of pretence to literary style.”
| + | Nation. 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 250w. |
* Clark, Mrs. S. R. Graham. Gail Weston. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
7–31978.
A story for young readers which follows the struggle of a mother and her seven children with poverty. The faultfinding mother, a patient, brave-hearted elder daughter and a loyal son who left his grandfather’s comfortable home to shoulder his share of family burdens are the principal actors in the little drama of toil and final success.
Clark, Victor S. Labour movement in Australasia; a study in social democracy. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43934.
Aims to describe the “history of the political labour party of Australasia, to analyse its policy and the results of that policy so far as applied, and at the same time to make clear the difference as well as the similarities characterising those countries and America, which must affect the application to our own problem of their experience.”
“Not quite so interesting as Reeve’s ‘State experiments in Australia and New Zealand’ or Lloyd’s ‘Newest England’ perhaps, but more judicial than either, and more carefully prepared than the latter.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
“The book is moderate in tone and is the work of an observer anxious to give correct impressions, hence students of labor and social questions will find it a very useful volume, enabling them to understand the causes and nature of the social evolution of Australasia.” George B. Mangold.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 230. Ja. ’07. 610w. |
“We highly commend the impartial statements of fact to be found in it, combined as they are with a form and style of exposition rarely to be met with among writers upon such topics.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 540w. |
“Dr. Clark has given students of this problem a most admirable statement of the situation in Australasia,—free from bias, well arranged and comprehensive enough to include the essential facts.” W. B. Guthrie.
| + + | Charities. 17: 468. D. 15, ’07. 480w. |
“It is refreshing to find an author who is willing to let the facts speak for themselves without playing tricks on credulous partisans and furnishing food for prejudice; and in this interesting volume the author seems to be honestly trying to place the reader in position to form his own judgment in the presence of the actual situation without too much prompting as to the conclusions he ought to derive from the survey.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w. |
“Written in scientific spirit, with unprejudiced presentation of both light and shade, composed in orderly manner with the use of clear unstrained English.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 600w. |
“Dr. Clark’s discussion of the working of social democracy in Australasia impresses one as being eminently fair.” John Cummings.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 242. Ap. ’07. 830w. |
“Mr. Clark ... is at his best in the chapter dealing with the economic and social effects of industrial regulation, particularly compulsory arbitration. Has covered a large field, and has done his work well; to our knowledge no other writer—in America at least—has brought back from that economic wonderland so reliable a report of the alleged marvels wrought in the name of ‘progress.’ His publisher should have seen to it that the book was provided with a better index.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1670w. |
“While much that he says is entirely just and true the general value of his book seems to me to be much vitiated by important defects and omissions. There are also in the volume a number of misstatements of fact, due, doubtless, to misinformation or to insufficient observation. All in all, Dr. Clark’s account of the labor movement in Australasia is of more interest and value to the student of theories than to the practical man of affairs.” Florence Finch Kelly.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 84. F. 9, ’07. 1730w. |
“The chief value of the present book, moreover, lies not so much in its description as in its interpretation of the facts.” Leonard W. Hatch.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 353. Je. ’07. 850w. |
Clarke, Henry Butler. Modern Spain, 1815–1898; with a memoir by the Rev. W. H. Hutton. (Cambridge historical series.) *$2. Putnam.
7–6416.
The posthumous work of a man “of acknowledged competence in matters, especially literary, pertaining to Spain, whose book is almost the only, and certainly the best, account in English of the unfortunate history of that country during the nineteenth century.... Its attitude is historical and, a special point for readers on this side of the Atlantic, its presentation of the Cuban question is temperate and convincing.” (Nation.)
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 760w. |
“A few important points are somewhat slurred, as, for instance, the matter of the Hohenzollern candidacy; the index is poor, and there are more slips and misprints than is usual in this series, but on the whole the book may be warmly recommended.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 140w. |
“The weakest part of the book appears to be the last pages, in which the author deals with the loss of the colonies in the war with the United States.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 81. Ja. 19, ’07. 1200w. |
“The present volume is a work of undoubted authority, and exhibits a complete mastery of the subject in all its details. It is a book written as it were from within, from a personal knowledge of the country and the people.”
| + + − | Spec. 98: 91. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w. |
Clarke, Maud W. Nature’s own garden. Il. **$6. Dutton.
“The author tells pleasantly, but with somewhat prolix sentiment, the story of her researches in English fields and woods for the flowers she has painted.” (Ind.) The volume is handsomely illustrated with numerous engravings and fifty colored plates of plants in their native haunts.
“Unfortunately for her book making, she has studied Richard Jefferies too much. We are grateful to her and to Messrs. Dent for providing us with another pretty gift book for our gentle, less critical friends.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 1350w. |
“Intelligence and thought and knowledge have worked hand in hand; and we appreciate these so much that we lament the more the lack of restraint with which the book is written.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 18. Jl. 6. 390w. |
“Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in Jefferies’s enchanting pages, persuaded to look at things that are near and common, and to find it there; and herein lies the value of this book.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
| + | Dial. 42: 1364. Je. 16, ’07. 1900w. |
“It is interesting to a lover of American flowers to see how English flowers look, for there are very few of the flowers here figured which grow here, altho many of them are familiar enough in literature.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“The manner of the book is personal in tone, colloquial, not always quite exact in the use of language, but fairly entertaining in the mass.”
| + | Nation. 84: 572. Je. 20, ’07. 560w. |
“Essentially a book of the gift class, it is a worthy recruit to the ranks of the nature books, both in concept and execution.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w. |
“Written by a nature-lover of unusual skill in description as well as in observing.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 90w. |
“The evident pleasure in the subject and in the task of production is more than usually infectious, and the sermons in aestheticism tend to disappear as the book progresses.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w. |
“The text is written in an involved and high-flown style, which may occasionally puzzle the understanding of many readers.”
| − | Spec. 99: 329. S. 7, ’07. 230w. |
Clausen, George. Aims and ideals in art. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–15912.
Eight lectures which treat of such subjects as quality in color, direct brush work, drawing, imagination and the ideal.
“We have much that is obvious and elementary, and see Mr. Clausen frequently retiring behind the sheltering authority of Reynolds or Millet or Leonardo.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 650w. | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Clausen is in fact an avowed disciple of Reynolds’s teaching. He finds in the famous ‘Discourses’ matter of pregnant interest and help for the student of to-day; and it is no small compliment to his own lectures that they recall, in their sanity and stimulating power, no less than in their clear and temperate style, their great example.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1230w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w. |
“He has hardly mastered Reynolds’ critical position. His method is simply to juxtapose the old and new in happy oblivion of their mutual exclusions. He has the artist’s lucky knack of seeing only what he wants to see, and the practical man’s gift of holding contradictory opinions. If Mr. Clausen brings us but a little way towards the solution of the problems which he raises, he has at least produced a modest and charming little book.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w. |
“The views expressed here are sound and the thought is clear. There seems to be little wanting that is possessed by the literary critic, while there is much that only the painter can know.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 257. F. 16, ’07. 1370w. |
Clausen, George. Six lectures on painting, delivered to the students of the Royal academy of arts in London. (London lib.) *$1.50. Dutton.
The six lectures include the following: Some early painters; On lighting and arrangement; On colour; Titian, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; On landscape and open-air painting; On realism and impressionism.
“Should be put into the hands of every young student.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“We applaud Prof. Clausen for appealing straight to the unself-conscious common sense of his audience, and for not wasting time in pedantry.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w. |
Clay, Albert Tobias. Light on the Old Testament from Babel. $2. S. S. times co.
7–4784.
“A résumé of the material in the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions which bears upon the interpretation and understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. There is much material included on Babylonian life and civilization not to be found in other works of this kind.”—Bib. World.
“This is a valuable addition from a conservative standpoint to the abundant literature on this subject.”
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 319. Ap. ’07. 50w. |
“The work is so treated that it scarcely at all duplicates the works previously published.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 200w. |
“The text displays a vicious tendency to minimize the changes of opinion in the field of Hebrew history and religion made necessary by recent discoveries, and to gloss over the similarities and magnify the differences between Babylonian conceptions and those of the Biblical narrative.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 160w. |
Clegg, Thomas Bailey. Wilderness. †$1.50. Lane.
“This is a story of a great wrong, a bitter hatred, and retribution complete and merciless enough to satisfy the most remorseless seeker after justice.... The scene is laid in Australia, a country which Mr. Clegg has evidently studied to some purpose; the characters are primitive men with primitive passions.”—Acad.
“Mr. Clegg writes well.”
| + | Acad. 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 130w. |
“Its fault is that it is too rich in themes, with the result that no one of them is adequately worked out.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 270w. |
“A thoroughly interesting and unconventional piece of work, vigorous with the spirit of a land still in its youth, so far as the over refinements of civilization go; and depicting persons and scenes far enough out of the ordinary to prove uncommonly attractive to the jaded reader of stories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1510w. |
Cleghorn, Sarah N. Turnpike lady: a tale of Beartown, Vermont, 1768–1796. †$1.25. Holt.
7–30831.
A story literally steeped in the atmosphere of “little nothingnesses” that make up the life of a family in a Vermont hamlet at the beginning of the revolution. It’s “an old-time American idyl with the spirit of locality strong upon it.”
“One recognizes an uncommonly successful writing-down of many of its present-day idiosyncrasies. For the rest, the story is quite inoffensive, told in a rambling, artless, unpracticed fashion, that almost makes one question whether it were not intended as a juvenile.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“A pretty story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 681. O. 26, ’07. 110w. |
“One feels that the author has real sympathy with her subject and characters, and that, despite her abrupt and disjointed manner of telling the tale, it is really worth having.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w. |
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Christian science.] $1.75. Harper.
7–6631.
Mark Twain’s viewpoint is an objective one, humorously critical and one which characterizes the Christian science faith in the light of a reversal of the very things which to its followers are possible. He counts Christian science among the religions of the insane, and considers Mrs. Eddy in the light of a self-deified mental despot, which picture is drawn from the author’s interpretation of her acts and words.
“He does his work coolly and impartially. ‘Christian science’ in the United States and elsewhere will find the present work offensive, and regard some portions of the humor which pervades it as little short of blasphemy.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 2140w. | |
| + − | Cath. World. 86: 244. N. ’07. 760w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 321. Mr. ’07. 2620w. |
“Adds nothing to the fame of the author.”
| − | Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w. |
“It certainly is extremely funny—in spots.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 40w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 255. F. 16, ’07. 1250w. |
“Mark Twain does not attempt a serious examination of the doctrines of Christian science; probably he thinks it would be useless.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1450w. |
“The book is without beginning, middle, or end; it is extremely repetitious. It cannot be regarded as either a serious or a humorous contribution to the discussion.”
| − | Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“From beginning to end Mr. Twain misunderstands where he does not misstate the beliefs of Christian scientists.” Charles Klein.
| − − | No. Am. 184: 637. Mr. 15, ’07. 2190w. |
“His book is much more than a garland of humor. In reality it is much more. It is a sober, compassionate and very earnest study of a remarkable system, the achievement of a very gifted woman.” Charles Johnston.
| + | No. Am. 184: 641. Mr. 15, ’07. 1580w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w. |
“Altogether, this book is unfortunate. Uproarious passages in it which have all Mark Twain’s old drollery and delightful extravagance tell us that his great comic powers are unimpaired. They wait to be reapplied successfully.”
| − | Spec. 98: 536. Ap. 6, ’07. 1570w. |
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Horse’s tale.] †$1. Harper.
7–34780.
Our much loved humorist has done another kindly service to his dumb brothers in this story of the cavalry horse, Soldier Boy, and the sunny little girl who loved him and all the world. There is much amusing satire in the story, but beneath it there throbs a great hearted kin-feeling for the animals who serve us, and there is a plea for true recognition of this service in the tragic death of little Cathy who lays down her life for the horse who has once saved it.
“We feel the throb of the kindest heart in the world beating for the helpless, whether brute or human, in this book, as in its long line of predecessors.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 170w. |
“The tale will interest both children and grown-ups.”
| + | Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w. |
“A short story in a rare vein of the author. Tenderness and swift, unexpected pathos make it notable.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Combining some of the best flavor of Mark Twain’s peculiar humor with sentiment borrowed partly from standard nursery literature and partly from the tracts of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 230w. |
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). King Leopold’s soliloquy: a defense of his Congo rule. 25c. P. R. Warren co., Boston.
5–32801.
With the intention of aiding Congo reform, Mark Twain arraigns humorously, but none the less scathingly, the shortcomings of King Leopold in his dominion over the Congo State.
“The great humorist never wielded his pen more pointedly in behalf of honesty and humanity.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 10: 198. Ja. ’06. 60w. | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 664. Je. 1. 50w. |
“While we are wholly in sympathy with Mark Twain’s purpose, we cannot approve of his method. The man so soliloquising would not say the things which the king is made to say, would not quote long passages which are, in fact, evidence against himself of the most damnatory kind. It is not a case, we think, in which fiction can be legitimately used, and as a matter of fact, it is not used with any great subtlety or art.”
| − + | Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 270w. |
Clements, Frederic Edward. Plant physiology and ecology. *$2. Holt.
7–25525.
A book intended for use with classes in second-year botany in college and university. In fifteen chapters the author treats of stimulus and response, the water of the habitat, adjustment to water, to light, to temperature, and to gravity, adaptation to water and to light, the origin of new forms, methods of studying vegetation; the plant formation, aggregation and migration, competition and ecesis, invasion and succession, alteration and zanation. The illustrations, consisting of photographs and line cuts, are many and good.
“Dr. Clements set himself a very difficult task, perhaps an impossible one, if we do not mistake the trend of recent study. That must be allowed for. Our main criticism, however, is not upon the choice of material for a brief treatise; it is against the attitude of mind that can tolerate vague explanations and invalid reasoning, and against a treatment of fundamental topics which is ineffective and not in accord with present knowledge.” C. R. B.
| − | Bot. Gaz. 44: 307. O. ’07. 970w. |
“The author writes in a peculiarly lucid and interesting way.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 150w. |
“Constitutes a notable addition to the literature of botany in America.” Charles E. Bessey.
| + + | Science, n.s. 26: 440. O. 4, ’07. 620w. |
Clerici, Graziano Paolo. Queen of indiscretions: tragedy of Caroline of Brunswick, queen of England; tr. by Frederic Chapman. *$7. Lane.
7–19766.
The unpleasant story of Queen Caroline, the much disliked wife of George IV. is given in detail in this volume. “To speak of her in the words of the romantic and attractive title of this book as ‘a queen of indiscretions’ is to put her case very leniently indeed. Knowing that scandalmongers were constantly busy with her name, she deliberately did whatever a mind remarkably fertile in expedients could devise to make herself talked about the more. Finally she left England and spent six years trailing her little court ... all over Europe and even into Asia. Much of this time she spent in Italy. And it is to the records of her stay in that country that Signor Clerici has especially devoted himself in the preparation of this book.... The illustrations are numerous and interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Caroline’s life was an astounding romance, and though it is a little clouded in the sumptuous volume before us by sentiment and pathos which are not needed, the account is ably given. The numerous illustrations, which are admirably reproduced from contemporary portraits and prints, would alone make the book of interest and value.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 55. Ja. 19, ’07. 850w. |
“It cannot be said that any addition of importance has been made to history. The book will doubtless have its public, and is laudably free from errors, unless we count as such the statement that Brougham was ever the ‘leader’ of the Whig party.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 728. D. 8. 1950w. |
“The index, by the way, is evidently not the work of an expert. There is a lack, too, throughout the narrative, of definite acknowledgment of sources.”
| − + | Dial. 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 300w. |
“It has two great merits—really new material and a seriously historical mind. He himself has brought to his task immense pains, lucidity, and an impartiality of mind which does not prevent a definite view from emerging.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 10. Ja. 11, ’07. 870w. |
“The book has for its chief attractions a series of illustrations, of which several are of interest, and some new, if not very important evidence as to Caroline’s doings in Italy.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 3, ’07. 560w. |
“Mr. Chapman has produced a very readable version of the original, but he ought not to have allowed ‘Huskisson’ to have been spelt ‘Hutchinson.’ Nor can we speak in warm terms of his introduction, which is largely made up of copious extracts from the Malmesbury diaries and Lady Charlotte Bury, together with much gossip that had better have been omitted. Some of the illustrations are exceedingly curious, and the book altogether is worthy of a better subject.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 340w. |
Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover. [Fishing and shooting sketches]; il. by H: S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.
6–35962.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The sentences are sometimes long and involved and do not make what is called ‘easy reading.’”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 40. F. ’07. |
“Short and unpretentious chapters, written as they are in a humane and enlightened spirit, with an occasional touch of humor in its specific sense, and a delightful prevalence of good humor throughout.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w. | |
| Ind. 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w. |
“This is perhaps the nearest approach the public will ever make toward seeing an autobiography by Mr. Cleveland.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 80w. |
“His little book is full of sound, homely philosophy and quaint humor.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 64. F. 2, ’07. 220w. |
Clouston, Thomas Smith. Hygiene of mind. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29074.
“A convenient and sensible handbook, setting forth the doctrines of sound health of mind.... The nature of brain action, its dependence upon the muscular, nutritive, and supporting systems, the changes of state in the several ages of man, the momentous doctrines of heredity, the special liabilities of the periods of life, the questions of diet and exercise, the reflex influences of good cheer and healthy-mindedness—all these are plainly handled.”—Dial.
“The book is a readable and practical contribution to its topic. It reflects a clinical interest in the workings of the mind, but lacks the insight into the underlying psychological relations that might well sharpen the contours and add interest to the details of the ensemble.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“His treatment of the management of instincts is particularly good, and is supremely sane.”
| + | Ind. 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 180w. |
“The greater portion of the volume escapes from the difficulties incidental to conflict between physics and metaphysics, and is devoted to giving good advice concerning the physical, moral, and intellectual training of the young. In this part of his task Dr. Clouston, although seldom original, is always sensible and instructive.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 910w. |
“A book that parents and others will find helpful in its suggestiveness rather than in definite directions or explicit advice.”
| + | Nation. 85: 105. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w. |
“It is sensibly written and backed by a wide experience of the matters in hand. A good deal of the author’s advice is stated somewhat too generally to be easily convertible into terms of practice, but the burden of his theme is clear enough.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 778. D. 22, ’06. 340w. |
“His materials are ample, betray wide experience, and on the whole are thoughtfully and wisely utilised.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 390w. |
Cody, Sherwin. Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c. McClurg.
6–24040.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S. |
Colby, June Rose. Literature and life in school. *$1.25. Houghton.
6–41522.
Concerned with the needs of elementary schools this book “aims to show that literature should be made a vital part of school life—not merely in the formal instruction, but in many incidental ways and in a spontaneous rather than a conventional fashion.... An appendix gives in condensed form suggestions for class and outside reading.” (Outlook.)
| Dial. 42: 233. Ap. 1, ’07. 50w. |
“The book is well worth reading, not merely by teachers, but by all who have an interest in the development of the child mind and in the advance of good taste and right standards in literary study.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“The style confuses one as to the usefulness of the book. It is a literary style, whereas it ought to be a scientific style. This gives it a vague and indirect air, where one has a right to expect directness and authority.” Porter Lander MacClintock.
| − | School R. 15: 400. My. ’07. 460w. |
* Cole, Timothy. Old Spanish masters engraved by Timothy Cole, with historical notes by Charles H. Caffin and comments by the engraver. **$6. Century.
7–32152.
This work continues the series of reproductions of paintings by old masters including Old Italian masters, Old Dutch and Flemish masters, and Old English masters. The enduring value of Mr. Cole’s engravings has been faithfully imparted to these reproductions while the text furnishes an interesting story of Spanish art. “Starting at the moment when Italian art was entering upon the superb achievements of the high renaissance, it survived the latter’s decay, reached its own independent climax in the seventeenth century, and received a supplementary chapter at the end of the eighteenth. As a connected narrative it may be said to have begun with the birth of a United States in 1492.”
“The thirty-one examples of his work contained add fresh lustre to his fame. Though not all of equal excellence, they are as beautiful artistically as anything he has previously done, and some of them are quite unsurpassed. Mr. Cole’s skill with the graver shows no sign of diminution. His line is still as marvellously varied, as virile and sympathetically expressive, as ever.” Frederick W. Gookin.
| + + | Dial. 43: 370. D. 1, ’07. 1050w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Cole’s illustrations of [Velasquez, Ribera, and Zurburan] ... are too suave, but he has certainly done the world of art a service in his other reproductions.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 614. N. 23, ’07. 340w. |
Coleridge, Mary E. Lady on the drawingroom floor. $1.50. Longmans.
7–35195.
“A dreamy prose idyl; the scene, that most unromantic spot, a London lodginghouse; the persons, a middle-aged spinster and an elderly bachelor. Yet with these unpromising materials the author succeeds in awakening sympathetic attention. The pleasant mystification running through these pages will not bear too close analysis; nor do we feel inclined to put it to such a test. Lucilla is the name of the heroine. She is as agreeable as her name, and lives in an atmosphere of flowers, music, and firelight, with pets as ill-assorted as a tortoise, a cat, and a parrot.”—N. Y. Times.
“Interesting, not for its plot, but for the character sketches and conversation and the originality of the two main characters. Unusually well written.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 107. Ap. ’07. |
“The dreamy and half-mystical charm characteristic of the author is stamped on every detail of the story, imparting to it an individuality and persuasiveness of its own.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 120w. |
“Hers is the method, rare, indeed, among English writers of fiction, which constructs without letting the reader see the processes of construction. There is such comedy or tragedy or fantasy on every page that the reader soon feels that to skip even a single sentence is to run the risk of missing something essential to the general effect, and at once to defraud himself and to do injustice to the writer and there is something of the fineness of thought which is rarely absent from good work.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 590w. |
“This is a frankly sentimental book, without being at all mawkish. There are no laughs to be gained from it, but many comfortable smiles. The author’s style has grace and distinction.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 130w. |
“It is very well done but was it worth doing?”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 170w. |
“A volume in which the delicate simplicity of the style is happily attuned to the gracious distinction of the author’s thought.”
| + | Spec. 97: 684. N. 3, ’06. 1070w. |
Colestock, Henry Thomas. Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.
7–10047.
David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school, receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife. He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.
| Acad. 72: 368. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w. | ||
| + | Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w. |
“The author designates his book a novel, but he would be better justified in calling it a novel once or twice removed.”
| − | Nation. 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w. |
“The author, having arranged his pieces and set his problems, having made sundry moves as if he were going to play the game according to the rules, finally falls back on an act of God for his solution, which leaves the whole business where it began.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 570w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“While there are many homely scenes sufficiently true to life in this tale ... it lacks grace, and fails to awaken complete sympathy for the somewhat ordinary young preacher.”
| − − + | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 110w. |
Collings, Jesse. Land reform, occupying ownership, peasant proprietary, and rural education. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–2568.
This volume by “the well-known supporter of Mr. Chamberlain and president of the Rural laborers’ league ... opens with a discussion of the principles of the purchase of land bills, introduced into the house of commons by the author two years ago. Next follow seven excellent chapters containing a fairly full history of the origin and growth of the present English land system, and particularly of the gradual disappearance of peasant proprietorship. Lastly, a third division of nine chapters sets forth the arguments for and against the various proposals which have been made for the revival of British agriculture and the encouragement of small holdings.”—Nation.
“Mr. Jesse Collings will carry a larger public with him in his attempt to supply material for a history of the land question, from the point of view of the occupying owner, than he will in his definite proposals.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 660w. |
“Valuable and instructive work.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 1420w. |
“A book of which certain parts are extremely interesting, though they appear in somewhat confused array.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 240w. |
“Those who are interested in the problem of English land tenure, whether they agree with Mr. Collings in his main contention or not, will find his book instructive; those who are interested in rural education will find it suggestive, and all who are interested in social and economic problems should find it worth reading.” Henry C. Taylor.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 351. Je. ’07. 860w. | |
| Sat. R. 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1050w. |
“Ought to have been wholly authoritative, and yet throughout must be read with caution.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 682. N. 3, ’06. 730w. |
Collins, Thomas Byard. New agriculture. $2. Munn.
6–40570.
“A popular outline of the changes which are revolutionizing the methods of farming and the habits of farm life. The writer maintains that farm life was never so attractive as it is today, although he admits that present methods of production and distribution outside the farm leave much to be desired.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is a treatise rather than an experience and savors considerably of poetry as well as of business, and he makes some mistakes. It will be of use, however, to anyone who wishes to easily inform himself of recent progress in agriculture or cheer that ever-increasing hope that lies in urban hearts and makes men think of a farm home.” J. Russell Smith.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 360w. |
“An interesting volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 120w. |
Collyer, Robert. Father Taylor. *80c. Am. Unitar.
6–42972.
Father Taylor lived and preached the principles of universal brotherhood. “An untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his rebuke of everything low or mean, a father to his homeless sailor ‘boys,’ frank, generous, outspoken, fearless, owning no man his master in thought or action, lovable always, with an emotional nature generous in all its impulses, set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted his life, who made use of his Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston.”
“In his ‘Father Taylor’ Robert Collyer is at his best.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + + | Arena. 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 300w. |
Colquhoun, Archibald Ross, and Colquhoun, Ethel Maud. Whirlpool of Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs; with maps, diag. and il. **$3.50. Dodd.
7–10613.
“Not merely a travel book, nor yet one purely geographical or political, but a combination of the two.” (R. of Rs.) “In this ‘Whirlpool of Europe’ may be studied the eddying currents of five or six different races, religions, and national ambitions. Every phase of European civilization, every question, racial political, or social, that has agitated Europe in the last two centuries may be here studied.” (Lit. D.)
“The book is the more important because of the scarcity of material on Austria available at the present time.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. S. |
“The value of the book—and it is great—does not consist in reply to the questions which the reader will put, but in the fact that a vast mass of material helping him to construct answers for himself is to be found in the pages of Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 350w. |
“The book is highly interesting to all who wish information about the problems of the dual monarchy. The shortcomings of the book are in the conclusions and the observations of the near past and the present-day life. The intimate knowledge which cannot be taken from books, but which can be obtained only by an extended sojourn in the country, is often lacking, and in its place there are categoric statements not always reliable.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 40. Jl. 4, ’07. 720w. |
“As regards political personages and living issues, such as Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, etc. the volume is instructive and interesting. Very interesting also is the authoritative account of the emperor’s personality.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 280w. |
“Mr. Colquhoun’s book appears to us to suffer to some extent from the attempt to cover too much ground; and we believe that it would have been more useful if he had devoted rather more space to the history of the last forty years and rather less to that of the Middle Ages.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1430w. |
“It is pleasant to lay hands on a serious study of an interesting problem by writers who can bring to the task the essential historical perspective and a capacity for making the event of the day relate to what came before it.”
| + | Nation. 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 940w. |
“As they have immeasurably accomplished their object, they are fairly entitled to a vote of thanks, even if they have failed to make their narrative quite as interesting as the picturesqueness of the material might persuade one to hope it might be.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 970w. |
“A distinct contribution of value to political literature.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 120w. |
“The chief weakness in the book lies in the want of arrangement, and an unfortunate tendency to go off at a tangent at any moment. Contains the makings of an excellent book on Austria-Hungary, but a great deal of revision and further study is necessary.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 832. My. 25, ’07. 2000w. |
* Colton, Arthur Willis. [Harps hung up in Babylon.] **$1.25. Holt.
7–30424.
A lyrical offering whose verse rings on, sings on as do the loosened strings of his “harp of Babylon.” “Brief, happily-fashioned records of a mood, such as ‘Let me no more a mendicant’ or ‘To-morrow,’ show his characteristic touch, but the ‘Canticle of the road’ is perhaps more delightful, with its marching measure and breath of ozone. Mr. Colton’s work does not interpret a wide range of experience nor formulate a philosophy, though the Eastern morality poems are thoughtful and true in ethics, but it has a touch of its own and a charm of personality.” (Putnam’s.)
“He did well, however, to associate his collection with the name and the charm of its opening lyric, for here is as lovely a bit of melody as one will find in recent poetry.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 366. D. ’07. 240w. |
Colvin, Sir Auckland. Making of modern Egypt. 3d ed. *$4. Dutton.
6–24922.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A well-written digest of official reports, skillfully edited by a ‘Financial adviser’ who had a fair share in the ‘making.’”
| + + | Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 810w. |
Commander, Lydia Kingsmill. American idea. $1.50. Barnes.
7–7168.
“In which the following question is considered: “Does the determination of the American people to establish a small family point to race suicide or race development?” The author discusses the question from first hand observation, search and interview and concludes that unless there is a social adjustment of industrial and social conditions, race suicide is inevitable.”
“A volume in which one of the gravest questions of the hour is treated in a most entertaining yet deeply thoughtful and wisely suggestive manner.”
| + + | Arena. 38: 212. Ag. ’07. 800w. | |
| Ind. 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w. |
“The discussion bears none of the dogmatic traits which usually characterize subjects of this nature; it is conducted in a fair and dispassionate manner.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 390w. |
“Is valuable chiefly for the large amount of first-hand testimony it contains touching the causes of our falling birthrate.” Edward Alsworth Ross.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 544. S. ’07. 310w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 638. My. ’07. 90w. |
Commons, John Rogers. Proportional representation. 2d ed.; with chapters on the initiative, the referendum, and primary elections. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–21300.
The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since 1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular government in very reality government by the people, through enabling the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto legislation.” (Outlook.)
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 130w. | ||
| + | Nation. 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 180w. |
“Certain statistical information might advantageously have been brought closer to date. We observe, also, a few tabular errors that should have been corrected.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w. |
Commons, John Rogers. [Races and immigrants in America.] **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–17894.
“Prof. Commons believes that the dominant factor in American life, underlying all our political, legal, economic, ecclesiastical, and moral problems, is the conflict and assimilation of races. He has shown how the heterogenous elements that go to make up the American people have influenced our institutions, pointing out the characteristics of the various races and nationalities, their part in self-government, their effect on wealth and its distribution, the forces of Americanization, and the barriers against inundation.”—N. Y. Times.
“A popular study with scientific basis.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 162. O. ’07. S. |
“The work is scientific as to method and popular in style, and forms a very useful handbook about the American population.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 340w. |
“Well fortified throughout by statistics, and evidencing a wide range of observation, the great merit of the volume is its sensibleness.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 100w. |
“Prof. Commons has managed to set forth an immense amount of condensed information about these many-colored threads that have gone into the weaving of our Joseph’s coat and has found room also to discuss, with a remarkable breadth of view and an unusual amount of common sense, the causes of immigration, the instruments of assimilation, and the effect of the new conditions upon the immigrants.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 240w. |
“Professor Commons has used the last census to good advantage, and gives much interesting information as to the constituent elements of this heterogeneous population, and also regarding the continuous displacing of one group by another with a lower standard of life.” G. Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 742. S. ’07. 410w. |
“We do not recall another book of its size that presents so much important and essential information on this vital topic.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w. |
Commons, John Rogers, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50. Ginn.
5–34201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
| + | Charities. 17: 470. D. 15, ’06. 370w. |
Compayre, (Jules) Gabriel. Pioneers in education; tr. by M. E. Findlay, J. E. Mansion, R. P. Jago and Mary D. Frost. 6v. ea. **90c. Crowell.
7–32037–32041.
A series of six studies on the rise and growth of popular education as shown in the efforts of the following pioneer educators: J. J. Rousseau and education by nature; Herbert Spencer and scientific education; Pestalozzi and elementary education; Herbart and education by instruction; Montaigne and education of the judgment, and Horace Mann and the public-school system of the United States.
“M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought, and both his critical and expository writing about them are most excellent.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 536. D. ’07. 70w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 737. N. 16, ’07. 420w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w. |
Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.). Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–36878.
An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”
“A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 24: 589. F. ’07. 550w. |
“The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing, interesting, refined, but purely academic.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 350w. |
“It is, in fact, a very good mechanism for telling a love story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
Comstock, Harriet T. Meg and the others. †75c. Crowell.
6–25997.
“Seldom have we read a sweeter or more natural and wholesome tale for little folks of from six to ten years of age than this charming story.”
| + + | Arena. 37: 222. F. ’07. 160w. |
Conant, Charles Arthur. Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.
5–36153.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a work that marks an epoch and it is a work to influence that epoch—would that it might have that careful reading and study that it deserves, for the result would be a better America, because a more intelligent one!” E. S. Crandon.
| + + | New England M. 35: 591. Ja. ’07. 2350w. |
Connolly, James Bennet. Crested seas. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–30867.
A new volume of sea stories is added to Mr. Connolly’s other three. “Many of the old characters of his previous books appear in new rôles and scenes; Martin Carr, the good-natured veteran; Tommie Clancy, the reckless sail carrier; Dan Coleman, the soft-hearted skipper, and such familiar hands as Peter Kane, Sam Leary and Eddie Foy. To a farmer who has never seen the ocean these stories would be full of interest, but to one who knows a seine-heaver from a bite-passer, who realizes what it is to carry full sail when the water stands to the helmsman’s waist, and has himself heard the rattle of reef points on a tauted sail and the groaning of riggings under a press of canvas, these tales of the sea weave a spell that is difficult to throw off for some time.” (Ind.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠ |
“The romance of a sailor’s life is not a new theme, but Connolly has lived and talked with these rough men of the banks, and has discovered the softer, sweeter side of their lives.”
| + | Ind. 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 310w. |
“That the author possesses a real, if not too versatile, narrative gift is undeniable.”
| + | Nation. 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 420w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Mr. Connolly appears to understand the psychological make-up of sea-faring men, and he is hypercritical who would ask too many questions of a tale teller who always spins a good yarn and frequently one that has in it the elements of permanent value.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 470w. |
“Has the spirited style that befits the sea tale of danger, romance and adventure.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
Connor, Ralph, pseud. [The Doctor; a tale of the Rockies.] †$1.50. Revell.
6–41274.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A rather conventional tale, but will be very popular with readers of earlier stories by the same author. Like them, it has a strong religious bias.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“A worthy successor of the ‘Sky-pilot.’”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 360w. |
“But out of the total impression left on me by this story two facts emerge which seem to have significance of the right sort. One of these is the religious tone that pervades the book. The other significant fact is what I am compelled to call the immorality of portions of the book.” Ward Clark.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 597. F. ’07. 890w. |
“Is written in his usual stringent style and abounds in thrilling situations.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 100w. |
“A narrative that throbs with human interest.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w. |
“Yet there is an artistic weakness, and it lies in the reiterated appeal to the reader’s finest sentiment.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 150w. |
“The plot is a little involved and intricate, and therefore not easy to follow, and the character drawing is not very strongly marked.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 170w. |
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski). [Mirror of the sea.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–37221.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a manner Mr. Conrad’s book marks an epoch, since it is written in praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes shall be sailed no more.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 777. D. 22, ’06. 760w. |
Conrad, Joseph. [Secret agent.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–29428.
A skilfully written story which looks into the lives of anarchists and the machinery of their organization. It tells of a secret agent in the employ of the Russian embassy in London, and of his relations with his employers, with anarchists, with an inspector of police, and with the sluggish members of his own family.
“It is a masterly study, the raw material of which would have been turned into crude melodrama by some writers. Mr. Conrad has made it the vehicle for some of the most telling characterization he has accomplished.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 361. S. 28. 630w. |
“We approach Mr. Conrad’s ‘The secret agent’ with anticipations that are not fulfilled.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 200w. |
“We do not consider ‘The secret agent’ Mr. Conrad’s masterpiece; it lacks the free movement of ‘Youth’ and the terrible minuteness of ‘Lord Jim,’ while it offers no scope for the employment of the tender and warm fancy that made ‘Karain’ so memorable; but it is, we think, an advance upon ‘Nostromo,’ its immediate predecessor.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 440w. |
“The characters stand forth clearly enough, but you cannot get interested in them till you have gone through the first half of the volume. This is too heavy a draft on the faith of the reader.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 250w. |
“There is, nevertheless, a vast gulf fixed between Mr. Conrad and the melodramatist, between the human tragedy of ‘The secret agent’ and the detective story of commerce.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 562. S. 21, ’07. 1230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“The book will not compare favorably in narrative and descriptive ability with some of Mr. Conrad’s early work, but it has, in its strange way, notable tragic intensity.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 130w. |
“In an Idle Reader’s opinion he is the best man at present telling stories.”
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 370. D. ’07. 90w. |
“There are certain obvious blemishes in this book.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 400. S. 21, ’07. 1690w. |
* Conway, Katherine Eleanor. In the footprints of the Good Shepherd, New York, 1857–1907; from the Convent annals and from personal study of the work. $1.25. Convent of the Good Shepherd. N. Y.
7–21320.
A memorial of the fiftieth anniversary jubilee of the Convent of the Good Shepherd of New York city. “Besides telling the story of the convent’s growth, Miss Conway gives an interesting account of the rule of life practiced by the Sisters, and their methods of treating their charges, with many touching illustrations of the divine efficacy of the Good Shepherd’s power.” (Cath. World.)
| + | Cath. World. 86: 115. O. ’07. 390w. |
Conway, Moncure Daniel. My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East. **$3. Houghton.
6–38349.
“This volume which forms a supplement to Mr. Conway’s autobiography, published last year, contains an account of his travels in India and recounts conversations with leading Buddhists, Brahmins, Parsees, and Mohammedans. The religious side of the author is thus brought into unusual prominence, with the result of considerably enhancing the interest of the volume.” (Lit. D.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07. |
“His peculiar views upon Christianity may repel or offend some readers, but the kindly spirit in which he writes of all men and almost all creeds is attractive, and he deals in loving reverence with the secrets of the underlying religious life of India.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 820w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 202. F. ’07. 2030w. |
“The work shows him in the ripeness of his powers, and in the enjoyment of his fearless independence as a free-thinker, but never playing the part of a scoffer. His perceptions have lost nothing of their keenness, his hand has not forgot its cunning and literary craftsmanship.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 42: 8. Ja. 1, ’07. 2100w. |
“Mr. Conway ... is a seer with a vivid poetic imagination, with an irreverent reverence of his own, and goes through the religions of the Far East with little concern for anything but what appeals to his own sense of truth and beauty.”
| + | Ind. 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 380w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w. |
“Mr. Conway’s acquaintance with Hindu literature is so very vague that the reader must be warned of the valuelessness of such literary criticism as his fertile mind offers, for in this respect ignorance is no bar to his daring. The one note that jars in these recollections of a venerable teacher is that teacher’s too evident pride in his own mental superiority.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 730w. |
“This résumé of his religious beliefs and unbeliefs will appear as shocking to some of his readers as it will appear illuminating to others. The seasoned reader and thinker will like it for its evident sincerity and its suggestiveness, but will not be sufficiently affected by it one way or another to lose any sleep on account of it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 1340w. |
“What value his book has lies in his ability to tell a story, certainly not in his estimate of conditions.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 761. Mr. 30, ’07. 1200w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 754. D. ’06. 100w. |
“Any one interested in questions of morality and religion may profitably read this volume, if he does not mind having his toes trodden, even trampled on.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 298. F. 23, ’07. 270w. |
Conway, Sir William Martin. No Man’s land. *$3. Putnam.
W 6–184.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A model of painstaking research.”
| + | Nation. 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 580w. |
Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and Stock, St. George. Selections from the Septuagint according to the text of Swete. *$1.65. Ginn.
5–36804.
“Brief introductions and copious notes fit these easy historical selections from the Septuagint for use by college students. The book should be useful in extending the knowledge of the Old Testament in Greek.”—Bib. World.
“It is not only scholarly and clever, but also bright and attractive.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 239. S. 1. 230w. | |
| Bib. World. 27: 400. My. ’06. 30w. |
“The book is welcome as filling a gap in our list of text-books, but it is in some respects ... disappointing, and it may well be doubted whether, as the publishers claim, it is a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the language of the New Testament.” Clarence H. Young.
| − + | Educ. R. 33: 534. My. ’07. 300w. |
Cook, Albert E. Bright side and the other side: what India can teach us; with introd. by J. G. Haller and W. F. Oldham. *75c. West Meth. bk.
7–13927.
In which the fruits of Mohammedanism are discussed. The study is based upon a knowledge of the religion’s influence on the life and manners of its devotees.
Cook, Albert S. Higher study of English. *$1. Houghton.
6–38399.
“The aims of the higher study of English rather than the methods is the purport of Prof. Cook’s recent treatise, and it addresses itself rather to the advanced and eager student than to the established teacher.” (Forum.) The book consists of four addresses, The province of English philology, The teaching of English, The relations of words to literature, and The aims of graduate study of English. “Yet the obvious note in all four is a general elevation of standards, both ethical and aesthetic, throughout the entire curriculum of English—a broadening and deepening of our national culture through an intensive appreciation of the best that has been handed down to us in literature.” (Dial.)
“Does not solve any problems or reveal any startlingly new point of view, but it is thoughtful and readable and therefore to be commended.”
| + | Acad. 72: 292. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w. | |
| + + | Dial. 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 460w. |
“As a presentation of an ideal the book could scarcely be surpassed.” William T. Brewster.
| + + − | Forum. 38: 391. Ja. ’07. 730w. |
“His work appeals to the general reader as well as the teacher.”
| + | Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 110w. |
“The book is not only richly suggestive to teachers of English, but to us of the present generation it is especially interesting for its historical placing of our subject.” Franklin T. Baker.
| + | School R. 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 380w. |
Cook, E. Wake. Betterment, individual, social and industrial. **$1.20. Stokes.
6–40953.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
| Charities. 17: 499. D. 15, ’06. 220w. |
Cook, Theodore A. Eclipse and O’Kelly. *$7. Dutton.
Agr 7–2179.
Eclipse is a horse that has won repeated race-course honors, and O’Kelly is his owner. Everything is set down “that could possibly be found out concerning Eclipse, his ancestors, his birth and education, his achievements, his appearance and measurements, the fate of his skin and his hoofs and his skeleton, his descendants and what they in turn have accomplished.” (Acad.)
“The book is a monument of thoroughness—also of energy.” G. S. Street.
| + | Acad. 72: 601. Je. 22, ’07. 1040w. |
“We must not hunt for small inaccuracies in a big book. Let us rather acknowledge frankly that the compiler has put together a standard work of reference concerning the subject.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 1070w. |
“A volume, with a good deal of information that is quite new and some stimulating suggestions. Even the smaller sporting library can hardly dispense with it.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 1090w. |
“Mr. Cook has discharged his task entertainingly well, and there is plenty of enjoyment waiting in his pages.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w. |
“The task of attempting the visualisation of the manners and the men of the latter half of the eighteenth century has occupied Mr. Cook with enthusiasm, and the result is some admirable work. He has pursued figures and statistics with immense energy and thoroughness. His figures will doubtless prove of great value to the biologist and breeder; but the best part of the book has to do with the heroic horse and the men who saw him race.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 130. Jl. 27, ’07. 1590w. |
Cooper, Francis, pseud. Financing an enterprise: a manual of information and suggestion for promoters, investors and business men generally. 2v. $4. Ronald press, New York.
7–485.
“The work treats of financing an enterprise that is either merely a development, proposition, or that is a growing concern, or that demands liquidation. The importance of proper preparation and presentation of such an enterprise is pointed out and attention called to the fact that without proper presentation, it is often extremely difficult to finance an enterprise, while with proper presentation, enterprises utterly devoid of merit have frequently been financed. The conditions and methods of financing are lucidly stated and illustrated with succinct examples.”—Technical Literature.
“This is a book on a subject concerning which few, if any, books have been written and very little published anywhere. Engineers who have to do with patented inventions and their commercial exploitation will also find much instructive and helpful matter in this treatise.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 534. N. 14, ’07. 680w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 60w. |
“The writer of this work displays an intimate knowledge of his subject, evidently, at least considerably, acquired through experience. His attitude is well balanced, and his discussions take both sides of the question. He appears to pay equal attention to advantages and disadvantages, and not to be carried to unjustifiable extremes in any of his discussion.”
| + + | Technical Literature. 1: 223. My. ’07. 900w. |
Cooper, Lane, ed. Theories of style with especial reference to prose composition: essays, excerpts and translations. *$1.10. Macmillan.
7–27343.
Written from a conviction that the link between substance and form, between knowledge and expression ought never to be broken, this volume includes a body of literary models, for the most part by masters of expression, illustrating and reiterating the salient principles of most good handbooks on English prose composition. The work is suggestive and of wide scope.
“An interesting contribution to the apparatus for the teaching of rhetoric.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 50w. |
Corbin, John. Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–14254.
“Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this ‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.
“A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current novels of this genre.”
| + | Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w. |
“It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that ‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to be encouraged.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 180w. | |
| + − | Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 180w. |
“Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic turns novelist at second hand.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 234. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 80w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 60w. |
Cornford, Francis Macdonald. Thucydides Mythistoricus. *$3. Longmans.
This volume contains not only “a study of the Greek historian who was a contemporary of Pericles ... but also a theory of history, a study of the historian’s art from the modern and sophisticated point of view.”—N. Y. Times.
“Able and brilliant.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 72: 311. Mr. 30, ’07. 1280w. |
“A book that is easy, even fascinating reading. It did not need his words of acknowledgment to let us into the secret of Dr. Verrall’s influence upon his ideas and methods. There is the same evidence of careful work and profound meditation; there is an approach to Dr. Verrall’s characteristic brilliancy of presentation; but there is left in the end the same impression of special pleading.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 152. Jl. ’07. 490w. |
“A very delightful book.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907. 1: 497. Ap. 27. 1900w. |
“The challenge implied in Mr. Cornford’s title is maintained in his book in a fashion which will be stimulating and suggestive even to those who cannot accept its conclusions.” Paul Shorey.
| + − | Dial. 43: 202. O. 1, ’07. 2160w. |
“Mr. Cornford’s brilliant and suggestive study provides material help ... towards revising the traditional estimate of Thucydides. Mr. Cornford does not always carry conviction. In particular, a cautious student will hesitate to trust himself to the insecure Icarus-flights of a higher-criticism which treats the sequels to the careers of Pausanias and Themistocles as ‘rationalized Saga-history influenced by drama.’”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 195. Je. 21, ’07. 1640w. |
“An inspiriting and commendable book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 250w. |
“The strong side of Mr. Cornford’s book is as an analysis of Thucydides’ mind.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 579. N. 9, ’07. 950w. |
“With this objection to his title, criticism of Mr. Cornford ends and admiration begins. We can only indicate Mr. Cornford’s view, and recommend all students to examine his arguments for themselves. They will find everywhere much that is instructive, and, however his apparent paradoxes may at first startle, the substantial truth of his position will in the end, we think, appear not less remarkable than its novelty.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 862. Je. 1, ’07. 1430w. |
Cornill, Carl H. Introduction to the canonical books of the Old Testament; tr. by G. H. Box. (Theological translation lib.) *$3. Putnam.
A translation of Professor Cornill’s fifth revised edition. The volume renders to the reader “knowledge which will enable him to understand the problems of the Old Testament and value the solutions which scholars have offered.” (Ath.)
“There is in our language no single volume on the subject which contains so much material, and especially which gives such full lists of relevant writings, as does this book by Prof. Cornill. There is always danger, however, that the limitations of a short work on a long subject may make an author dogmatic, and in this respect Prof. Cornill is not above suspicion.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 580w. |
“The clearness and conciseness of the original are preserved in the translation, but it is to be regretted that the translator has made references to previous passages by sections only, which are not noted at the top of the page and are therefore difficult to find in the text.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 270w. |
“While primarily designed as a handbook for critical students, it is serviceable in the main points and general lines for intelligent readers, though unacquainted with Hebrew, in its presentation of Old Testament critical science at this date, both as to its closed questions and remaining problems.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 180w. |
Cornish, Charles John. Animal artisans and other studies of birds and beasts; with a prefatory memoir by his widow; 2 pors. from photographs and 12 drawings by Patten Wilson. $2.50. Longmans.
7–28981.
“These papers, now for the first time gathered in book form ... present many interesting phases of animal life, particularly from what might be called the industrial side, the underlying current being the existence among other animals than man of distinct arts and crafts by which they either gain a mere living or provide themselves with shelter.”—N. Y. Times.
“The single defect of the book is the absence of an index.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 450w. |
“One receives the impression that the natural history here recorded is the outcome of an avocation. It lacks the tension, and the critical point of view, of the trained scientist.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
| + − | Dial. 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 390w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 500w. |
“Several of these articles display a lamentable want of knowledge of scientific zoology on the part of the author. After all, the volume is perhaps sufficiently accurate to suit the requirements of the readers to whom it is likely to appeal.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 437. Mr. 7, ’07. 380w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“If the papers in the volume before us are distinguished in any way from others that went before, we should say that the observation of the author is more ingenious than ever.”
| + | Spec. 98: 292. F. 23, ’07. 1600w. |
Corthell, Elmer L. Allowable pressure on deep foundations. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–28847.
This work is an amplified form of a paper to the Institution of civil engineers brought about by Dr. Corthell’s investigation of the subject relating to the construction of a port at the city of Rozario on the Panama river.
“The admirable form of the compilation, and the thoroughness with which the abstracts of published articles have been made, make the book one of great value.”
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 80. Jl. 18, ’07. 310w. |
Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.). Life’s shop window. $1.50. Kennerley.
7–4158.
With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the delineation of character.
“The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 80. F. 9, ’07. 490w. |
“‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w. |
Cotes, Everard. Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–29141.
“After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea, Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the recommendations based upon them.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 252. Mr. 2. 920w. |
“The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H. T. P.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 422. Je. ’07. 1300w. |
“On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 757. S. 26, ’07. 550w. | |
| Lond. Times. 6: 114. Ap. 12, ’07. 410w. | ||
| + − | Nation. 85: 60. Jl. 15, ’07. 350w. |
“Full of interesting information.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 230w. |
“He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up an interesting field for speculation.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 654. My. 25, ’07. 1440w. |
Couch, A. T: Quiller-. From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–35302.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles, literary criticisms and reviews.”
| − | Sat. R. 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 370w. |
Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.) Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–30166.
“The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.” (Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the ‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides performing many another telling service.
“A well written amusing tale.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠ |
“It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 579. N. 9. 420w. |
“His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and courage.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author, at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 410w. |
“The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”
| + | Nation. 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 240w. |
“On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 160w. |
“The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
“He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”
| + | Spec. 99: 488. O. 5, ’07. 750w. |
Couch, A. T. Quiller-. Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35145.
“‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.
“A delightful collection.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. |
“The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 180w. |
“Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory essay.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 100w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 60w. |
“An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain daintiness.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 150w. |
“A very delightful book this.”
| + | Spec. 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 80w. |
Couch, A. T. Quiller-. Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–8212.
Some sixteen chapters of this adventure story lead up thru school-boy escapades, crime, and mystery to the secret of Mortallone island in the bay of Honduras. The chart containing the plan of the island and affording the key to the spot of buried treasure after causing a deal of trouble falls into the hands of a little party who set sail from Falmouth in quest of the island and its hoard. Mr. Quiller-Couch has drawn with clever touches the spirit of unanimity which, with noticeable lack of greed, characterizes the treasure seekers.
“Written with unusual spirit and charm.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 107. Ap. ’07. ✠ | |
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 405. Ap. 6. 340w. |
“The author’s happy faculty for sketching eccentric types of character is exhibited at his best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company that he provides for us.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“After you have laid down the book, no character, no dramatic situation remains in the memory—nothing but a general impression of misapplied and wasted cleverness.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. |
“A curious and wholly impossible piece of fiction. Has many points of interest, but is very uneven on the whole.”
| − + | Lit. D. 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 240w. |
“Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret that ‘Poison island’ does.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w. |
“In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at the credulity of romance-lovers.”
| − | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w. |
“There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times almost tedious.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w. |
“If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his mise-en-scene.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w. |
Couch, A. T: Quiller-. Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–31381.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 540w. |
“It lacks the breath of the romantic life, and inspires a feeling that the writer himself has lived chiefly in books and rarely a life of his own.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 230w. |
Coulton, George Gordon. From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene: (1221–1288) together with notes and il. from other medieval sources. *$4.20. Scribner.
6–32412.
For this second edition fresh matter from Salimbene’s chronicle has been added and the notes and appendices have been extended. “For those who wish to see the seamy side of the middle ages, this is the best book in English.” (Nation.)
“Mr. Coulton is a far-seeing man and a good writer. What is more remarkable he contrives to unite a judicial mind with strong convictions, which lend warmth and interest to his style.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 1380w. |
“He has read widely in the sources of his period, and is able at every turn to illustrate Salimbene’s statements.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 244. S. 20, ’06. 1380w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 70w. |
“Contains more of the famous chronicle of Fra Salimbene, a Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century, than has hitherto appeared in print in English, and for that reason it is a valuable book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 602. S. 20, ’06. 250w. |
“He has a great knowledge of his period, considerable attainments, and a very workmanlike gift of exposition. But unfortunately he is before all things else a controversialist.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 645. N. 24, ’06. 1350w. |
“We would recommend the book, as full of curious information, to every one who cares to illustrate his Dante studies by a real contemporary picture of the thirteenth century on its darker side, with all the peculiarities of its social and religious life.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 725. N. 10, ’06. 1320w. |
Coutts, Francis Burdett. Heresy of Job; with the inventions of William Blake. *$2. Lane.
The volume contains “first, introductory matter explaining the editor’s conception of the poem’s purpose and meaning; second, the poem itself divided into three parts, Prologue, Debate, and Epilogue; third, some pages of notes elucidating certain obscurities in the text; fourth, an appendix containing the speech of Elihu the Buzite; fifth, a list of commentaries consulted; and, finally, the ‘Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake,’ and first published in 1825, by Blake himself. Job’s ‘heresy’ consisted not in a denial of God or a rejection of religion, but rather in a refusal to subscribe to the smug orthodoxy of his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.” (Dial.)
“Mr. Coutts has succeeded in properly emphasizing one important side of the argument of Job, but his error consists in mistaking a part for the whole.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 250w. |
“An attractive and useful volume.”
| + | Dial. 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 320w. |
“Scholarly introduction.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 220w. |
Coutts, Francis Burdett. Romance of King Arthur. *$1.50. Lane.
“The romance of King Arthur is here told in four parts—the poem of ‘Uther Pendragon,’ the plays of ‘Merlin’ and ‘Lancelot du Lake,’ and the poem of ‘The death of Lancelot.’ In his preface the author states that his ‘sole important variation from the accepted legend’ is to represent Mordred as the legitimate son of Morgan le Fay, and thus supply the enchantress with a purely human, and therefore, we may add, somewhat superfluous, motive for her malevolence towards Arthur.”—Ath.
“The whole work is undistinguished and dull. It is all padded out.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 603. Je. 22, ’07. 280w. |
“There are some fairly effective ‘curtains,’ but the blank verse is generally monotonous and rich in commonplaces.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 360w. |
“In this volume Mr. Coutts has surprised us. A poet he was known to be; a lyric poet of some intensity and much art; a philosophic poet whose work was unified by a coherent, if undogmatic, faith, and expressed in language as simple as it was profound. The discovery that he is also a dramatic poet comes unexpected.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 870w. |
“The medium of the whole—idylls and playlets—is blank verse, whereof the quality at times is excellent. The inspiration, in spite of the form, is perhaps rather Kipling than Tennyson, and the playlets are better than the idylls.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 640w. |
“Mr. Coutts’s poems, while they are smooth and flowing and show now and then passages of much beauty or of poetic fervor, are weak and pale when tested beside the Tennysonian idylls.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w. |
“Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity, and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a considerable measure of poetry.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Cowan, Samuel. [Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne, her physician.] *$3. Lippincott.
Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against Elizabeth.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the domestic life of Mary’s court.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
“He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w. |
“A contribution of importance to the literature of its subject.”
| + | Spec. 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w. |
Cowley, Abraham. Essays, plays and sundry verses, v. 2. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23868.
“The first volume of Cowley’s Works in the Cambridge English classics contained all the poems published in the folio which appeared the year after his death. The second volume, now issued, contains the earlier writings from the edition of 1637, together with the plays and essays. The editor, A. R. Waller, is preparing a Supplement of notes, biographical, bibliographical, and critical.”—Nation.
“A very workmanlike edition.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It cannot be said that this edition, with its reproduction of the old spelling and its inclusion of so much that is dull, is the best for the reader who merely desires his comfort, but for the scholar it is altogether admirable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Reviewed by William A. Bradley.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 222. Ap. 6, ’07. 1990w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Admirable and scholarly edition.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 95. Ja. 20, ’06. 2300w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Cox, Kenyon. Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters and new. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–31410.
In an introductory essay on “The education of an artist,” Mr. Cox compares the education afforded by the apprenticeship custom of the renaissance with that obtainable in the modern art schools and studios. Following this chapter are six, as follows: The Pollaiuoli, Painters of the mode, Holbein, The Rembrandt tercentenary, Rodin and Lord Leighton.
“The appreciations, written in a charming easy style, show the author’s technical knowledge, his catholicity of taste and judgment.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. |
“It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”
| + | Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w. |
“Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w. |
“From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w. |
“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge, he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w. |
Crabbe, George. [Poems. 3v. v. 3.] *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23869.
“This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829), which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral of the Squire.’”—Ath.
“This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and exhaustive thoroughness.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w. |
“The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal justification for much which is present. The editing of the present volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w. |
“Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of confessing his affections.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w. |
“For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely, Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe in the most comfortable form.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w. |
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Amulet. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37962.
The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new world.” (Lit. D.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07. |
“Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and points of view.”
| + | Ind. 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w. |
“There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of fiction.”
| + | Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w. |
“Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial consideration.”
| − | Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w. |
“Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long ago established her enviable reputation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w. |
“The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w. |
“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their surroundings.”
| + | Spec. 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Windfall: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15119.
The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains, and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however, becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.
“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by undisciplined verbosity.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w. |
“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w. |
“She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however, only in the fact that it contains a threehanded heroine. Fortunately she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w. |
“Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”
| − | Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w. |
“The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally marred by serious lapses.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w. |
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.
7–23083.
A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship. The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is illustrated with charts and portraits.
“The book is a repository of sociological facts.”
| + | Nation. 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w. |
Craig, Neville B. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.
7–29709.
“The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.
“This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise. Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w. |
“He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the nature faker.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w. |
“While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work, until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells Buel.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w. |
Craig, W. H. Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry, personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.
7–25141.
A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well deserves careful perusal.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w. |
“It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S. M. Francis.
| + | Atlan. 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w. |
“His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be a not too flattering picture of the man.”
| + | Dial. 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w. |
“It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries, except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w. |
“In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves nothing to be desired.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w. |
“The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W. Boynton.
| + − | Putnam’s. 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w. |
“Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen, based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read his story of Lord Chesterfield.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w. |
Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36053.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 108. Ap. ’07. |
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
| Atlan. 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
“To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w. |
Cram, Ralph Adams. Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.
7–21371.
“Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in various publications, which are here brought together.... They are mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in art generally.”—Dial.
“After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every individual or committee or congregation interested in the building of a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w. | |
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w. |
“Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w. |
Crandall, Charles Lee. Text-book on geodesy and least squares, prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.
6–42921.
“Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares.... The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and information given in the appendix.”—Nature.
“The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated, it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w. |
“For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be treated.”
| + | Nature. 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w. |
Crane, Robert Treat. State in constitutional and international law. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–31399.
A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state in international law.
Crane, Walter. An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37525.
Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond. Times.)
“The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w. |
“We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail, interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned, but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail would be of interest it is often lacking.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w. |
“The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that of the writer is not excepted.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w. |
“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared with it for self-consciousness.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w. |
“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man associated for the first time. The result is attractive even picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be more satisfactory.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w. |
“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently successful career in over-great detail.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w. |
“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could write so well.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w. |
Crane, William Edward. American stationary engineering. $2. Derry-Collard.
6–35993.
“The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.
| + | Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w. |
Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer. Practical illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17392.
“The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.
“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination. It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.” L. B. Marks.
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Arethusa.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33911.
A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠ |
“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w. |
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w. |
“More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w. |
“He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be, extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”
| + | Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his usual vivacity.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w. |
“His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w. |
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Lady of Rome.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w. |
“It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical implications.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w. | |
| + + | Ind. 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w. |
* Crawford, Francis Marion. [Little city of hope: a Christmas story.] †$1.25. Macmillan.
A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final success a possibility.
| Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w. |
Crawford, J. H. From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.
The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion. Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks, foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.
“Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite of a somewhat affected style.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w. |
“Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w. |
“We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w. |
“His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some excellent accounts of wild life.”
| + | Spec. 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w. |
Crawford, William Henry. Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18143.
This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of righteousness.”
“President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr. Crawford.”
| − + | Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w. |
Crawfurd, Oswald J. F. Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25506.
Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer, “presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.” (Sat. R.)
“Good detective stories.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07. |
“Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and unexpected.”
| + | Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w. |
“He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w. |
“The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w. |
“We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the reading public.”
| + − | Spec. 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w. |
Crawshaw, William Henry. Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.
7–16385.
“A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity 449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance, 1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.
“In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound guide.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w. |
“The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and criticism.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w. |
“The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w. |
“For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an illuminating book.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w. |
“Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments, breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + − | School R. 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w. |
Creighton, William Henry. P. Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5. Wiley.
7–8522.
A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples and problems.
“The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the publishers.” Storm Bull.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w. |
“An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to train the student to think.” John J. Flather.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34687.
Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother, the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)
“With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ... Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w. |
“Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w. |
“The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full of intrigue and wild adventures.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w. |
Croly, Herbert David. Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.
7–28610.
In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the house in relation to out-of-doors.
“Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”
| + | Dial. 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w. |
“The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these pages.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w. |
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| Putnam’s. 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w. |
Cromarsh, H. Ripley. See Angell, Bryan Mary.
Crook, Rev. Isaac. John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14594.
In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear modern vision.”
Cross, Alfred W. S. Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–12686.
A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the sanitarian.
“The volume before us is a commendable one.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w. |
“Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every architect who is likely to design bath houses.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w. |
* Cross, Richard James, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.
A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time. Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many others are represented.
* Crothers, Samuel McChord. Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.
Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable vision that has cheered the ages on.
Crouse, Mary Elizabeth. Algiers. **$2. Pott.
6–38897.
“A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07. |
“Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its interpretations.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w. |
“The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w. |
Crowell, Norman H. Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22732.
Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching, base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.
Crozier, John B. Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution. $4.50. Longmans.
6–46262.
A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth, as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with, and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of “Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under review the English and foreign schools.
“So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated, science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at excessive length.”
| − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w. |
“Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w. |
“Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer; reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would take a high place in modern economical literature.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w. |
“In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’ it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr. Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’ like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w. |
“Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty in appreciating.”
| − | Spec. 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w. |
Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M. Christian Rome. (Grant Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.
7–30815.
A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.
“In plan than which there are none better.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 162. O. ’07. |
“Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w. |
“An admirably practical guide.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w. |
Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M. Umbrian cities of Italy. 2v. il. $3. Page.
7–30814.
A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region, and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”
| + | Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w. |
“Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers will enjoy.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w. |
Cruttwell, Maud. Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.
7–28946.
A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds.... The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so free from printer’s errors as is the text.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w. |
“One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w. |
“A book of permanent value to students.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) |
“Has permanent value.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w. |
Cruttwell, Maud. Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries, the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.
7–33970.
Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three galleries of Florence.
“Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w. |
“All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in another edition.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w. |
Cundall, H. M. [Birket Foster, R. W. S.] il. *$6. Macmillan.
7–28516.
An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost representatives of the English school of water color painting. His landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”
| Ath. 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w. |
“Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact and skill.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w. |
“It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w. | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w. |
“In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w. |
“Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us uncontent.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w. |
Cunningham, William. Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade imperialism. *60c. Putnam.
6–33507.
“The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St. Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take his opponents at their best.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w. |
“There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w. |
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w. |
“Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”
| − | Spec. 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w. |
Cunynghame, Henry H. S. European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.) *$6.75. Macmillan.
6–41011.
The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.
“Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume one of the most charming of an excellent series.”
| + | Acad. 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w. |
“On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w. |
“A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”
| − | Dial. 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w. |
“Beautiful and instructive volume.”
| + | Ind. 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w. |
“A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w. |
“The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on these ... is extremely valuable.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w. |
“We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”
| + | Nation. 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w. |
“A valuable volume.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w. |
Cunynghame, Henry H. S. Time and clocks: a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–11023.
“Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally, proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours), and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various forms.”—Spec.
“If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one actually in hand.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w. |
“We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.” W. E. R.
| + − | Nature. 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w. |
“A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly mathematical.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w. |
“He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical contrivances which he describes.”
| + | Spec. 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w. |
Curtis, Carleton Clarence. Nature and development of plants. *$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”
Curtis, Natalie, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.
7–31183.
A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians themselves.
“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous in its symbolism, of a child race.”
| + | Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w. |
“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”
| + | Nation. 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w. |
“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully, and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician, to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the Indian character and the Indian traditions.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w. |
“A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing peoples.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w. |
Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.
6–27984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual survivors.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w. |
“In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its justification.”
| + | Ind. 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w. |
Cust, Lionel. Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.) $1.75. Macmillan.
W 7–162.
“An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and authority.”—Acad.
“As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a place in the library of every connoisseur.”
| + | Acad. 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w. |
“The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w. |
* Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart. Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances, obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)
“One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |